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PREFACE. 



In his address at Chicago last October President 
Cleveland said : 

"It was soon after the election of 1884 when an old resident 
of your city was endeavoring to persuade me to make yon a 
visit. He met every objection that was offered and adhered 
pertina€iou?^ly to the statement that I should accept the in- 
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Chicago is fit to be president.' I have often thought of this 
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might be done and all that I wished to do. I have often won- 
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Chicago. 

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PREFACE. 



ington, is one that addresses itself to the people in 
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the people's representatives. 



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viewed the superstructure. 

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A Bird's Eye View of 






OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL. 



1, The City and its Government, 

Looking at our federal government, we note first its location, 
which is in the city of Washington, on the banks of the Potomac 
river. This national capital is not in any of the United States, 
but in the District of Columbia, a sort of neutral territory set 
apart for it. In 1790 the states of Virginia and Maryland 
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government, and since then the district has been governed, as 
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yet the popular verdict is unmistakably in favor of the sup- 



1. Where is our federal ^vemment located ? What is said of the govemmeot 
of fche District of Columbia and of the relations of its citizens to the federal 
authority ? 

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with congress ? what power has th» president over legislation ? 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 



[The official residence of ttie president is built of freestone and painted 
white, and hence is popularly called the " Whi'e House." It is two stories 
in height, with 170 feet front and 86 feet depth. The cornerstone was 
laid in 1792, and the house was first occupied by President Adams in 




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1800. The house was burned by the British in 1814, but was rebuilt and 
re-occupied in 1817. It is one and a half miles from the capitol, and is 
connected therewith by a broad avenue, whence the frequent congres- 
sional allusions to '* the gentleman at the other end of the avenue."] 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 3 

eriority of the president. It is consid ered vastly more import- 
ant for a party to gain control of the presidency, than to mnster 
a majority in one or in both of the houses of congress. More- 
over, the president has, in addition to his functions as chief of 
the executive department, the duty and privilege of advising 
legislation by congress and influencing the same by signing the 
bills or sending them back for correction to the house in which 
they originated. 



THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 



3. The Presidential Campaign. 

The jiresident of the United States is elected under Art. II, 
Sec. 1, and Amendment XII, of the constitution, and under 
the laws made and provided by congress in accordance with 
these sections. To understand how presidents are made, how- 
ever, we must go further back than the elections, and see how 
candidates are nominated. According to custom^ early in 
the year of the presidential election, the national com- 
mittee of each of the political parties issues a call for a gen- 
eral convention of party delegates. Two delegates are generally 
allowed to each congressional district, and four to the state at 
large, so that the convention will be twice as numerous as the 
two houses of congress in joint session. This convention meets 
daring the summer at the place chosen by the committee, and 
proceeds to choose the party candidates lor president and vice 
president. It also adopts what is now known as the party 
platform — a declaration of the views of the assembly on nation- 
al questions. The nominations made, a committee is sent to 
formally notify the candidates of the honor bestowed on them. 
The candidate (who has usually had a few weeks to get used to 
the situation) verbally accepts the honor, but postpones for 
several weeks his formal ''letter of acceptance."' which is in 
most cases a prolix review of the platform, giving the personal 
views of the writer. The campaign has by this time begun and 
public speakers are "on the stump'' in all parts of the union, 
urging the people to rally in behalf of the party candidates. 
Congressional and state election campaigns are in most cases 
also in progress* so that the excitement waxes great, in pro- 
portion to the interests involved. 

*It is not necessarv that these elections be held on the same day, and 
in some of the states another election day is set for the choice or" state 
officers and members of congress. 



3. Describe the national party convention and political campaign. The plat- 
form aad letter of acceptance, 



OUB FEDERAL G0VEEN3IENT, 



4. The Presidential Election. 

The presidential election day is fixed by act of congress (in 
1845) on the "Tuesday after the first Monday in November," every 




GROVER CLEYEL A XI). 
President of the United States. 

[Grover Cleveland was born in Essex, N. J., in 1837. He received liis 
education in the common schools, attending for a short time, the acad- 
emy atChnton, N. Y. He began his career as a clerk in the employ of 
his'nncle in Buffalo, N. Y., studied law and practiced for some years in 
the same city. In 1870 he was elected sheritf of the county ; in 1881, 
mayor of Buffalo ; in 1882, governor of New York state, and in I88i,pre8i- 
ident of the United States.] 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 5 

fourth year. On this day the people— as they understand it — 
elect their president and vice-president. Legally, however, they 
vote, as directed by the constitution, for presidential electors. 
These electors always vote as directed by the party that nom- 
inates them, but, though in this regard mere automatons, their 
interposition is a bar to the popular will in two ways. Firstly, 
each state is given as many electoral votes as it has members 
in both houses of congress, and consequently the small states 
have an advantage. Secondly, since all states now vote for 
their electors on a general ticket, the slightest of pluralities is 
sufficient to turn the state vote one way or the other, and this 
can not be outweighed by a heavy contrary majority in another 
state. In one way this is a gooil thing. It would place a high 
premium on fraud and intimidation, if a party in one state could 
— by suppressing or counting out the opposition — vote solidly in 
favor ot its candidate and overwhelm adverse pluralities in 
states where a fairer condition of things was maintained. 



5. The Electoral Vote and the Count by Congress. 

At the last session of congress, a bill was passed to regulate 
the procedure of the lederal election after the popular election 
lias been held. If there is any controverey over the result in 
case of any elector, the matter may be submitted to the state 
courts for settlement, but judgment must be obtained at least 
six days before the day set for the electoral balloting. This 
date is changed from the fii-st Wednesday in December, to the 
second Monday in January. The certified return of the elec- 
toral vote is made to the secretary of state at Washington and 
on the second Wednesday in February the vote is to be counted 
by congress. In this canvuss, the vote of all states from which 
only a single return has been received, must be counted. Where 
two or more returns have been received, the two houses of con- 
gress must agree in determining which is the vote of the 
regularly certified state electors. If the case has been decided 
by a state court, they are to be bound by its decision: other- 
wise they are to count the votes cast by the electors whose ap- 
pointment is certified by the governor of the state. 

The count by congress completes the presidential election, 
and on the 4th of March the successful candidate is installed 
with appropriate ceremonies. 



But though the president is at the head of the entire govern- 
ment, his authority' is more especially felt in the executive de- 
partment. [To thoroughly understand the division of power 



4. How is the president elected by the people ' What is said of the system ? 

5. Describe the electoral vot^ and the count by congres*. 



6 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

between the different departments, and between the federal 
government and the government of the states, the student 
should peruse one of the many treatises on the federal con- 
stitution.^ This will enable him to fill out the meager outline 
of the scheme that we can give here. ] 

*Books especially recommended are : " Young's Government Class- 
Rook." published by Clark & Maynard, New York and Chicago ; "Mar- 
tin's Civil Government," published by A. S. Barnes & Co., New York 
and Chicago ; and " Macy's Our Government," publislied by Ginn & Co., 
Boston and Chicago. These are text- books in common use and acces- 
sible, to mo&fc readers. 



Nature, Organization, and Scope of the Federal 
Government. 



6. Orig^iii and Extent of its Authority, 

Our national government is that of a federal republic, rep- 
resenting both the states and the people, and possessing limit- 
ed powers delegated by its constituents. 

The federal constitution is the instrument conveying the pow- 
ers so delegated, and itself forms the fundamental and organic law 
of the government. Powere not "nominated in the bond'* of 
union, or not obviously intended to be conveyed by it, remain 
with the sovereign people — the original grantors — and do not 
belong to the federal government. 

The government established by the constitution represents 
the country internationally. In ail dealings with Ibreign 
governments it has exclusive control. In domestic affairs it 
deals with the people as the representative of the states, and 
with the states as the representative of the people. The ])Owers 
given to it in domestic affairs are those concerning the welfare 
of the entire nation, and chiefly those concerning matters in 
which uniformity of legislation is desirable. 



THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. 



7. Organization— The Congress. 

The federal government is organized in three general divis- 
ions, — the legislative, executive, and judicial departments. The 
classification is not strictly observed, but the exceptions are 
few. Generally speaking, the legislative branch of the govern- 
ment makes the laws, and the executive branch administers 



6. "What is our national government? What is the federal oonstitution? What 
is the scope of the government so established ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 7 

the same, subject to the supervision of the courts, in cases where 
its authority is disputed. 

The legislative department is composed of a senate and house 
of representatives, the former representing the states, and the 
latter the people of the union by districts. The senate con- 
tains seventy-six members ; two from each state, whether the 
state be large or small. The house of represeutatives contains 
at present 325 members, representation being apportioned 
among the states according to population. 

Senators are chosen by a majority vote of the legislature of 
the St ate they represent. They hold office for six years. By ar- 
rangement, the terms ofone third of the senate expire every 
second year, so that a majority of the senate is always in office. 

Representatives are chosen by the popular vote in districts, 
laid off by the state legislature so as to contain about the same 
number of inhabitants. Local government divisions are re- 
garded in forming the districts, but, by what is known as 
'•gerrymandering," party advantage is often sought iu an ab- 
normal grouping of countries or towns, to form a district. Rep- 
resentatives hold office for two years, their terms expiriDg the 
3rd of March every second year. 

It will be noted that the people of the territories have no 
part in the federal government, having no vote for senators or 
representatives, and taking no part in the presidential election. 
Each territory may send a delegate to the national house of 
representatives, but these, though allowed the privilege of 
debate, are not allowed to vote on any question whatever. 



8. How^ L.aw8 are Made. 

All acts are before passage styled bills. These bills are 
either introduced by members personally, or are given in re- 
ports of committees, and after passage according to the rules of 
one house, are sent to the other. When both houses agree in 
passing a bill it is sent to the president for his approval. If 
this is given, the bill becomes an act or law. 

The president has a constitutional right to veto or forbid a 
measure, and this nullifies it, unless congress, by again passing 
the same bill by a two- thirds vote in each house, shows its 
determination that the measure shall become a law. This is 
called passing a bill "over the veto," and when this is done, 



7. How is the government organized ? How is the legislative department com- 
posed ? How are senators chosen and for how long a term ? How is the house of 
representatives formed ? How often are its members elected ? What part have 
the people of the territories in the government at Washington? 

8. How are laws made ? What if the president does not approve of a measure ? 
How are bills introduced in congress ? What are the committees to which bills 
are referred ? 



8 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

the president's approval of the bill is not necessary to its enact- 
ment. 

Bills concerning revenn© and expenditure, must be intro- 
duced in the house of representatives. Other bills may origin- 
ate in either house. According to rule, a member may dJaw 
up a bill and offer it whenever he can get the house to listen 
to it, but in these cases the bill is seldom considered. It is, it 
not rejected or "laid on the table," referred to a committee, and 
this committee may alter, amend, or wholly suppress any 
measure, and offer another bill in its place. But since both 
political parties are represented in the committees, most bills 
of public interest are reported both favorably and unfavorably, 
by the majority and minority of the committee, so that the 
question is fully brought before tlie house for consideration. 



9. Standing Committees. 

Committees may be special — appointed for the occasion, — 
but both houses have a number of standing committees to take 
charge of particular classes of legislation, and it is to these 
permanent committees that new bills are generally referred. 

In the senate there are forty standing committees, besides 
six or seven special committees that are kept up as long as 
there seems any need of them. Some of the more important 
are as follows: Appropriations, education and labor, coast 
defences, commerce, finance, foreign relations, Indian affairs, 
judiciary, military affairs, naval affairs, patents, pensions, 
privileges and elections, and public lands. 

In the house there are about forty -eight regular committees, 
and four or five special ones. The more important are the com- 
mittees on ways and means, appropriations, the judiciary, 
coinage, commerce, foreign affairs, military affairs, naval affairs, 
and rules of procedure. These are, at least, the ones we are 
most likely to read of in the newspapers. 

In the senate the committees are arranged by the members in 
party caucus. In the house they are appointed by the speak- 
er, who endeavors, of course, to satisfy the individual and 
party claims to consideration. 



10. The Vice President and President of the Senate. 

In the senate the vice-president of the United States is, by 
virtue of his oflSice, the chairman. He has no share in the ex- 
ecutive duties of the president, and his part in legislation is 
the slightest possible. He has no vote in the senate, unless 



9. Name some of the more important committees in the senate. In the hoaM. 
How are the committees arranged in the senate ? In the honte T 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 9 

there is a tie, and in his duties as chairman is not given the 
discretionary power granted by custom to the speaker of the 
house. 

A vacancy in the vice-presidency may occur in either one of 
two ways. The incumbent of the office may die, resign, or be 
removed by impeachment, or he may succeed to a vacancy 




JOHN JAMES IXGALL6. 

Peesidext of the Senate. 

[Senator Ingalls Is a native of Middletown, Mass.. where he was born 
in 1883. Trained for the law, he emigrated to Kansas in 1858 and began 
the practice of his iDiofession at Atchison, He took an active part in 
politics and served in the state legislature ; also edited for some years 
the Atchison Champion. He was elected to the senate in 1872 to succeed 
S. C. Pomeroy, and w^as made president pro tem. in 1887.] 

similarly caused in the office of president. No provision is 
made for filling a vacancy in the vice-president's office, but as 
the senate must have a chairman, one of its members is chosen 



10 OXJB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

to preside for the time being.* In taking this office the mem- 
ber receives no additional salary, and still remains a senator 
with a right to speak, vote, or act on committees. 

*In case of the death of both president and vice president the presi- 
dent of the senate does not succeed to t'le vacancy. By the presidential 
succession bill, passed in January, 188G, the succession is vested in the 
cabinet in the following order : state, treasury, war, justice, post office, 
navy and interior— the first eligible officer acting as president ex -officio. 

11. The Speaker of the House. 




JOHN G. CAELISLE. 

Speaker of the House of Kepresentatives. 
[John Griffin Carlisle was born in Kentucky in 1835, In early life he 
taught school, but studied law and ^vas admitted to the bar in 1858. 
Was elected to the state legislature in 1859 and served therein till 1862, 
and afterwards for two terms beginning 1866 and 1869 respectively. 
From 1871 to 1875 he was lieutenant governor of Kentucky. Since 1876 
he has been in congress and since 1884 has been speaker of the house.] 



10. What position does the vicepresident hold in the senate? In case there is 
a vacancy in the vicepresidency what does the senate do for a president T Who 
becomes " heir apparent" to the presidency? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 11 

In the house the speaker is chosen by a majority vote of the 
members, at the beginning of each congress. Generally, he is 
chossn beforehand by the members of the dominant party in 
the house in caucus assembled. 

Of course, the speaker of the house, holding his position, as 
do other chairmen, at the pleasure of the majority, cannot be 
altogether despotic; yet the powers lodged in the speaker's 
hands are so great that there is a continual suspicion that he 
may misuse them to the detriment of some party. Hence there 
are many reforms proposed, to divide the authority now wielded 
by the speaker. Most of these would make the speakership 
non-partisan, as it is in the English parliament, and have the 
standing committees elected by the house at stated times. The 
question of the powers of the speaker is, however, merely one of 
procedure, that the house is fully competent to determine with- 
out the help of experts in theoretical statecraft. 



12. The TVork of Congress. 

Some facts concerning the work of the last congress — the 
49th — will give us an idea of the legislative burdens of this 
body: The 49th congress came to an end March 4, 1887, after 
the usual all-night session to prolong the legal existence of the 
congress to its utmost limit. This congress first organized Dec. 
4, 1885, and continued in session till Aug. 5, 1886, when it 
adjourned to re-assemble Dec. 6, for the session which closed 
March 4. During this period — nearly eleven months — there 
were introduced in the house 11,258 bills and 263 joint reso- 
lutions, and in the senate 3,357 bills and 118 joint resolutions. 
Of these measures, nearly 1,400 were passed, over 1,000 of the 
enacted laws being house bills. 

Of the laws passed by congress, there are many annual ap- 
propriation bills, which simply make it legal for the executive 
ofl&cersof the government to take money from the treasury to 
pay salaries, bills, pensions, r,nd other obligations incurred by 
previous legislation. Even the secretary of the treasury can- 
not legally pay his own salary until congress makes the ap- 
propriation, and when — as is sometimes the case, an appro- 
priation bill fails to pass, persons having claims against the 
government are made to wait a whole year before they can get 
their acknowledged dues. Besirle these annual bills, there are 
great numbers of measures affecting only private interests. 
These generally involve a grant of money, and often consist 
merely of an appropriation to pay some extra-legal claim, or to 

11. Who is speaker of the house ? What is said of his powers ? 

12, What is said of the work of the 49fch congress? Who is chairman of the 
committee on appropriations? What power has the legislative over the execu- 
tive department? 



Id 



OUR FED^BAL GOVERNMENT. 



forward some scheme in which only a small part of the com- 
munity has any interest. Of late years many private pension 
bills have been passed; these command the proper officers to 
place some person's name on the pension list, and thereafter 
pay him or her a pension out of the annual fund provided. 

But aside from the regular appropriations and the annual 
billB, there is always a certain amount of new legislation de- 




SAMUEL J. RANDALL. 

Chairman of the Committee on AppROPiiiATiONS. 

[Mr. Randall was born in 1828. He began his career as a Pliiladelphia 
merchant, but dabbled in city and state politics. He served three months 
in the army, was sent to congress in 18G2 and has been re-elected ever 
since. Was speaker of the house in 1876-81.] 

manded. Laws once passed continue in force until repealed,* 
but there are always new conditions arising, that demand new 
laws or changes in those already existing. It is noteworthy, 
however, that congress is remarkably dilatory in providing 
this new legislation. Most of its work is bestowed on the ap- 
propriations and private bills. 

*Laws may also "expire by limitation." Many acts are passed to 
continue in force for a specified time only. Unless re-enactea they be- 
come null and void at the date set for their expiration. 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 13 

Congress is nothing if not practical. Its committees take ac- 
count of the workings of the executive branch of the govern- 
ment, and offer new legislation according to their views of 
what is proper and desirable. Or by joint resolution the two 
houses may order any executive department to follow a speci- 
fied line of action in any particular case. These joint resolu- 
tions, to have the force of law, must receive the approval of the 
president, or be passed over his veto. 



THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT. 



13. Division and Subdivision of Executive Power. 

What is known as the executive branch of the government 
is divided into departments, and subdivided into bureaus. There 
are also bureaus, or minor departments, at large, as it were, — 
the heads of the same being subject to the direct authority of 
the president and not under any individual member of the 
cabinet. 



14. The President's Cabinet. 

There are seven principal executive officers who form — ac- 
cording to law and custom — the president's cabinet or council. 
The discretionary power lodged in the president's hands is 
great, and it is fitting that he should have advisors. According 
to the constitution, the president is required, in certain cases, 
to act "with the advice and consent of the senate," but this is 
compulsory, and intended to be a hindrance and not a help to 
the chief magistrate. Law and custom, in giving the president 
the right to choose — with the senate's approval — the heads of 
his chief departments, has led to the formation of a * 'cabinet," 
or advisory council, the members of which are subordinate and 
helpful, without either coercing the president, or lessening his 
responsibility for the conduct of the government. 

The members of the president's cabinet are, the secretary of 
state, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of war, the sec- 
retary of the na\^^, the postmaster general, the secretary of the 
interior, and the attorney general. 



15. The Department of State. 

The department of state was first established by act of con- 
gress in July, 1789. It was then called the department of for- 



13. How is the executive branch of the government divided ? 

14. Who are the president's oonstitational advisors? What are the members 
of the cabinet ? 



14 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

eign aflfairs. In the following September, owing to some en- 
largement of the duties of the department, its name was changed 
to the department of state, a non-committal title, for all de- 
partments are of "state," as is recognized by the names given 
them in England. 

Besides the secretary of state, there are, in the department at 
Washington, three assistant secretaries, one chief clerk, six 




THOMAS F. BAYARD. 
Secretaey of State. 

[Thomas Francis Bayard is the fifth of his family in direct descent 
who has occupied the office of United States senator from Delaware. 
He was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1828. He became a lawyer and 
politician, and finally, in 1869, succeeded his father as senator. He be- 
came eminent as a statesman and has several times been put forward 
for the party nomination for president. He was appointed secretary of 
state in 1885,] 

chiefs of the different bureaus, between forty and fifty clerks, 
an examiner of claims, a translator, and nearly forty other 
subordinates of different grades. 



15. When was the department of state established ? Besides the secretary of 
state whQ form tbis department? 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 15 

16. The Work of the Department. 

The department of state conducts all correspondence with, 
and issues all instructions to, the diplomatic representatives of 
the United States in foreign countries. It also carries on all 
negotiations with foreign nations through their proper rep- 




GEORGE L. RIVES, 
Assistant Secketaey of State. 

[George L. Rives was born in New York in 1S49. He is a lawyer bv 
profession, but is best known (locally^ as a politician and a zealous work'- 
er for schools and public libraries. Is a trustee of Columbia College and 
oftheAstor Library,] 

resentatives at Washington. It thus has charge, under the 
supervision of the president, of all matters pertaining to for- 
eign affairs. 



16 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

It carries on all necessary negotiations with the several state 
governments, and is charged with the duty of promulgating 
or publishing, laws, constitutional amendments, treaties, etc., 
and also the information collected by our foreign consuls for 
the benefit of the people of America. 

Thesecretary of state has charge of the official seal of the 
United States (as well as of the special seal pertaining to the 
state department,) and it is his duty to affix this seal to the 
commissions issued to officers in the ci\il ser\dce, except in 
the case of revenue officers, who are otherwise provided for. In 
the archives and library of the state department, are stored the 
originals of all bills, resolutions, orders, etc., of the houses of 
congress, and a special bureau of "indexes and archives" has 
))een organized for their custody. 

The other divisions are the diplomatic bureau, the consular 
bureau, and the bureau of accounts, of rolls and library, and 
statistics. 



17. Reports to Congress. 

Of the work of the department, no regular annual report is 
made, but special information must be given to congress con- 
cerning the complaints of American seamen with regard to 
their treatment in foreign ports, and concerning changes in the 
commercial systems of other nations that may affect American 
interests. The president, in his messages to congress, lays be- 
fore that body an account of the important negotiations carried 
on by the state department, whenever he considers the mat- 
ter in hand ripe for publication; and either house of congress 
may hasten this declaration by calling for a statement of the 
steps taken and the progress made. Thus, negotiations are 
now in progress on the"Canadian fisheries question." Negotia- 
tions have, in fact, been going on for two or three years with 
little result, but last fall the president and secretary of state in- 
vited a conference of commissioners.* Great Britain appointed 
the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, and Sir Lionel Sackville-West, 
( British minister at Washington) as her commissioners. Canada 
sent Sir Charles Tupper, a distinguished memberof the Dominion 
government. Secretary Bayard of the state department called 

*Thereis a technical objection to this action, inasmuch as though 
the president is authorized to negotiate, his right to make temporary 
additions to the civil service is extra legal, and presidential 'com- 
missions" have several times been assailed in congress on this ground. 
In the present case, however, the work of the commission, if satisfactory, 
will, no doubt, be accepted by congress without question. 



16. Describe the work of this department. What are the duties of the secre- 
tary of state? 

17. What reports must be made to congress ? What is left to thd president to 
lay before congress ? 



OXJB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 17 

to his Hssii^tance James B. Angell, president of the university 
of Michigan, and William L. Putnam, a lawyer of Portland, 
Me. The joint commission thus formed is now iDecem>)er, 
1887,) in secret session at Washington, and little is known of 
its progress, but a report will doubtless be made to congress 
by President Cleveland, as soon as the commission can formu- 
late a satisfactory settlement of the fisheries question. 




JOHN SHERMAN, 

United States Sexator feom Ohio. 

[John Sherman was born iu Ohio in 1823. He is a lawyer by profession ; 
nas been a leader in the Republican part\' ever since' its organization 
Was sent to congress in 1885, and kept there rill 1861, when he was pro- 
niored to the senate. Dmlng Hayes's adminisrration he was secretary 
of the treasury, but with this exception, his service in congress has been 
continuous for the last thirt\-two years. Since his return to the senate 
in 1881, he has been constantly beiore the public as "Ohio's Favorite 
Son," and candidate for the presidency.! 



18 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 
IS Congressional Supervision. 



Congressional supervision over the department of state, is 
exercised by the committees on foreign relations in the senate 
and house. Senator Sherman presides over the former, and 
Representative Belmont over the latter. As the senate's ap- 
proval is necessary to validate a treaty, and as the house must 
appropriate necessary funds, this congressional supervision is 




PERRY BELMONT, 
Representatia^e feom 1st Disteict, New York. 

[Periy Belmont is the son of August Belmont, the biiuker-politician, 
and owes not a little to his father s wealth and political prominence. 
He was born in New York In 1851, was admitted to the bar in 1876 and 
elected to congress in 1880.] 

no little matter. The chairmanship of the foreign committees 
is eagerly sought by ambitious congressmen. 



18. What power has congress over the department of state? Who is chair* 
man of the committee of foreign relations in the senate? In the house? 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. IS 

19 . Diplomatic Service. 

The diplomatic and consular service of the United States is 
Dotlar^^e, considerinsj the size of the country, yet we have rep- 
reseutatives in most countries with any claims to civilization. 

We send "envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary" 
to Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, 
Spain, Mexico, Peru, Chili, Brazil, China and Japan. Also 
ministers resident to the Central American states, to the 
Argentine Republic, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Belgium, 
the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Liberia, Hayti, 
and the Sandwich Islands. Denmark, Paraguay and Uruguay, 
Portugal, Greece, and Switzerland, are given ministers of the 
third grade, who are styled, "charges d'affaires." The differ- 
ence between these three grades of ministers is rather in 
the amount of honor and profit appertaining, than in the 
duties of the office. Secretaries of legation are attached to 
most of these missions. 



30. Consular Service. 

Consuls, or commercial agents of the government, are main- 
tained at all important cities in foreign countries. They look 
after the interests of American residents or tourists, hear com- 
plaints, etc. They have considerable discretionary power, but 
this is subject to international agreement, and varies accord- 
ingly. A consul in a half civilized country, for instance, does 
not defer to local authorities in case of conflict between Ameri- 
cans and natives, as he is required to do in European countries. 
In some countries, consuls have exclusive jurisdiction over 
crimes and offenses committed by Americans. Consuls are 
the guardians of American seamen and must see that their 
wards are not oppressed by their captains, nor left stranded in 
a foreign country. If necessary, sailors are to be sent home at 
government expense. 

For these and other services, — such as reporting facts, in- 
ventions, etc., of interest to the American public, — consuls are 
well or ill paid, accordingto their classification. Consuls of the first 
grade are well paid, and are expected to refrain from trade; 
those of the second grade receive less salary, but are allowed to 
turn an honest penny by commercial transactions. A still 
lower grade receive only the official fees, and appointments to 
this class are usually given to the only people who can afford 
to take them — Americans resident abroad, or foreigners with 



19. Of what does our diplomatic service consist? 

20. What are the duties of the consuls? To what class of people is the con- 
sular service usually entrusted ? 



30 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

American affiliations, who can discharge the duties of the 
office without giving up their regular employment.* 

Consuls, it will be seen, have no diplomatic, and only a quasi- 
representative character. Appointments to these consular offi- 
ces are sought rather for profit than for honor. In a few cases, 
however, the office is joined to that of minister resident, or 
charges d'affaires, and one official discharges the duties of both 
offices. 



*Speaking of the demand for United States consular appointments, 
Secretaiy Bayard recently said : "The emoluments of some of these 
offices fall below $50 per annum. Would you think that anybody would 
desire an appointment at so trifling a remuneration as that? No, o( 
course you would not, and yet 1 have applications daily for them. It is 
true the applicants are not Americans. They aie natives of the differ- 
ent countries in which these consular offices are situated. The men who 
want them are engaged in trade. The appointment would permit them 
to fly the American tlag and invoke the protection of the American gov- 
ernment in the event of trouble. Several years ago the consul-general 
atone of the far eastern countries v.as paid the enormous sum of Sf'0,000 
for five consular agencies in his district. He did this without the con - 
sent of this jiovernment. but he got the money just the same. You will 
see by the register that the fees at all five of the i)laces scarcely foot uj) 
$100 a year. The appointment carried with it, as I have .said, the right 
to fly the American tiag. It liappened that the men in each case were 
bankers. The ruler of that country had the not unusual eastern tasliltm 
of sometimes levying a heavy tribute upon liis rich .siil.)je«'ts. Not in- 
frequently this tribute amounted to as much as the sum ))aid to the con- 
sul-general. The moment they represented the United States that 
moment they were free men so lar as coercidu from their ruler went. 
They paid high for their immunity, but it was undoubtedly a good in- 
vestment." 



^1. Bureau of Rolls and Library. 

The bureau of rolls and library has the custody of the his- 
torical papers of the department, of which there arc many, and 
of the law library — home and foreign — necessary for the pro)ker 
inforbaation of the department. The statistical bureau of the 
state department must be distinguished from the '^bureau of 
statistics" in the treasury department. The state department 
deals only with the information concerning foreign countries, 
trade, etc., (chiefly supplied by consuls), as it may think wise 
to publish for the benefit of the American public. 



33. Tlie Treasury Department. 

The treasury department has existed since 1789, when it was 

established to take the place of a similar office that had, in 

one form or another, existed since 1776. At first it was a 

small office, but it has, — especially since 1861 — greatly in- 



21. What are the duties of tfee bureau of rolls and library? 

22. When was the treasury department established f Who is head of this 
department? What can you say of the nature and extent of the work of the 
trMtury? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 21 

creased in size and importance. There are now employed, by 
the department at Washington, something over 3,000 persons, 
and its transactions affect, — often by their very magnitude, — 
business interests in all parts of the union. 

The treasury department is divided into the following offices 
and bureaus: Office of the secretary, including eight regular 




CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 

[Mr. Fairchild is a comparativelv vouug man. He was a resident of 
New York previous to his appointment, in 18^5. Was a well-known 
advocate of chil service reform, so that IManning's choice of him for 
the assistant secretaryship did much to strengthen the Mugwimips' 
faith in Manning's sincerity' as a reformer. He was promoted to tne 
secretaryship March 31, 1887, on the retirement of Daniel Manning.] 

divisions ; the chief clerk's office ; the office of the custodian of 
the treasury building; the special agents division; the secret 



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service; the bureau of statistics; the bnreau of cDgraving and 
printing ; the bureau of navigation ; office of the sunervising 
architect, the inspector general of steam vessels, the superin- 
tendent of the life-saving service ; the light-house board ; surgeon 
general of marine hospitals : 1st and 2nd comptroller ; commis- 
sioner of customs ; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th auditors; 
treasurer; register; comptroller of the currency; commissioner 
of internal revenue, and the coast survey. 




ISAAC H. MAYNARD, 

Assistant Secretary of the Treasuey. 

[Isaac H. Maynard was born in New York In 1838 ; has had some polit- 
ical prominence and was the defeated Democratic candidate for secre- 
tary of state in New York in 1883. Was appointed second comptroller 
of the treasury in June, 1885, and first assistant secretary in 1887. J 

Thus, it will be seen that the department embraces far more 
than the collection, safe-keeping and disbursement of public 
moneys, which was its original scope. Many of the bureaus 
appear to have been attached to this department simply because 
they seemed to belong to no other, and much of the discretion- 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 23 

ary authority wielded by the secretary altogether transcends* 
any proper conception of the duties of a government hanker. 

Under the secretary of the treasury there are two assistant 
secretaries, who divide the duties of supervising the work of 
the various bureaus. The chief clerk has similar supervisory 
powers, and is specially charged with the duty of seeing the 
orders of the secretaries published and carried into effect. 



23. Troasui'y Division of Appointments. 

Below these, there is in the secretary's office a division of 
appointments, which takes account of all papers relating to 
appointment, dismissal, promotion, etc., complaints and charges 
and the examination thereof, the verification of the pay roll, 
and the account of absence from duty on the part of employes. 
Part of this work relates to the department in Washington, 
and part to the work in the collection districts of the customs 
and internal revenue.* 

To give some idea of the duties of this division, we may say 
that the reception room of the appointment office is always 
open to employes and to the public, and is constantly thronged 
by petitioners for favor either on behalf of themselves or their 
friends. These must be answered civilly and respectfully; 
their often tedious tales of misfortune and distress must be 
heard sympathetically. Complaints must be noted and in- 
vestigated. Replies must be made and arguments advanced 
to show the petitioner the utter impossibility of granting his 
request. Also from 12,000 to 15,000 letters are yearly vnritten 
in reply to petitioners who can not come to present their re- 
quests in person. 

Altogether, the post of chief of this division is a sort of re- 
form school for a spoils politician, — calculated to convert him 
to a belief in competitive examinations and fixed tenure of 
office for government employes. 

*This division is an important one, and it has been under public 
scrutinv lately, because the chief of the division, Eugene Higgms of 
Maryland, appointed March 31, 1885, came into office under strong con- 
demnation by the civil service reform association of Maryland. He had 
been, it was charged, not only an offensive partisan, out a political 
worker of doubtful methods and disreputable political associations. He 
resigned in December, 1887. 



24. Division of "Warrants, Estimates and Appropriations. 

Next is the division of warrants, estimates, and appropria- 
tions. This covers part of the book-keeping of the treasury, 

28. What is the division of appoiatmeats in this department? W^ hat is said 
of its duties? 
24. What is the next division ? What are its powers and duties ? 



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which is very elaborate; it issues the warrants for the receipt 
and payment of money Idj the treasurer, takes account of a])- 
propriations, and compiles the annual estimates and statements 
of receipts and expenditure, as well as the monthly debt 
statement. Money cannot be "covered into the treasury," 
without a warrant, — any more than it can be taken out with- 
out a congressional appropriation. Between receipts from the 
revenue officers, and the "covering in" referred to, the money 
is on deposit with the treasurer, or in the sub-treasuries in 
different parts of the country. 

Money is paid out of the treasury (when duly appropriated 
by act of congress) in two ways only: — 1st, by warrants drawn 
by the secretary of the treasury, upon the treasurer, in favor of 
disbursing officers, who are charged with amounts drawn and 
must account for it; 2nd, by similar warrants drawn in favor 
of outside parties, in settlement of claims against the govern- 
ment. 



S5. Divisions of Public Moneys, of Customs and of Internal 
Revenue. 

Another branch of the treasury book-keeping is entrusted 
to the division of public moneys, which has the supervision of 
the government funds in the sub-treasuries, and other deposit- 
ories, and the enforcement of the regulation requiring strict ac- 
counts from disbursing officers. Also the keeping of other ac- 
counts intended as a check upon the book-keeping of other 
divisions. 

The division of customs, and the division of internal revenue 
and navigation, are occupied chiefly in considering appeals 
from the extortion of collectors, and petitions for the remission 
of unjust fines imposed and penalties exacted by these officers. 
Legally, the government has no confidence in the honest inten- 
tions of the people, nor shame at its own meanness and greed, 
but to render the situation tolerable, the department is given 
power to remit fines and penalties unwittingly incurred. Of 
course, the power is abused, just appeals ignored, and unjust 
ones granted, but that is the fault of the system. The power to 
^'remit penalties" has given the department a loophole of escape 
from public indignation in many cases. 

The "navigation" mention refers to the officers charged 
with enforcing the navigation and steam-boat inspection laws, 
and collecting the "fines, penalties and forfeitures" incurred. 



S6. The Division of Loans and Currency. 

The division of loans and currency has th^ supervision of 
matters pertaining to the national debt, and to the issue, re- 



OUR FEDERAL G0VERN3IENT. 25 

demption and cancelling of bonds, greenbacks, and fractional 
currency. The bonded interest-bearing debt of the govern- 
meut is something over $1,000,000,000. Sixty -four millions of 
this, — in Pacific railroad bonds — bears 6 per cent interest ; the 
restof it is the "funded loan of 1891, (bearing 4^ per cent in- 
terest, and redeemable after Sept, 1,1891), and the 'consols of 
1907," which bfar 4 percent interest and are not payable till 
July 1, 1907. These bonds were issued under the funding a€ts 
of 1870 and 1871. At that time the government was paying 
live and six per cent and wished to borrow money at a lower 
rate to tale up its bonds. By offering a long-time loan it was 
enabled to do so. By waiting a year or two, it could have 
made much better terms, but this it could not foresee. 

Besides the bonded debt, there are the legal-tender notes and 
fractional currency. These bear no interest, and from their 
convenience as money, would never be pressed for payment. 
They are, however, subject to wear and to mutilation from one 
cause and another, and are continually presented, for redemp- 
tion on that account. 

The supervision of the issuing of notes and bonds, the pay- 
ment of interest, the calling in, redemption and cancellation of 
bonds, the over- sight of the engraving and printing of these, 
audof gold and silver certificates, and the custody of the dis- 
tinctive paper on which all these are printed — are among the 
duties of the division of loans and currency. Also this division 
is responsible for the destruction of cancelled securities, notes, 
aud fractional currency. 

A lar^e share of the United States bonds are registered in 
tliis division of the treasury and cannot change their owner- 
ship without a formal transfer recorded on the books of this 
division, in the manner prescribed by law. 



2 7. The Revenue 3Iariiie Service. 

In the collection of the tariff, the treasury department has 
appointed custom houses at the different ports of entry, and, 
to discourage smuggling, maintains a revenue-marine service 
to enforce the laws and the treasuiy regulations. Some forty 
revenue vessels, armed, manned and equipped, patrol the sea- 
coast and the lakes, and, besides guarding against smugglers, 
are authorized to do police duty in many ways. The admin- 
istration of this service is under the treasury division of re- 
venue-marine, which also supervises the accounts of the light- 
house bureau and that of the United States coast survey. 



25. What is saiti of the division of public moneys? Of those of custonts and 
internal revenue? 

26. What division has charge of the national debt ? What is said of its nature 
and extent ? 

27. What is the treasury marine service ? What are its duties? 



26 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

2S. Divisions of Stationery, etc., and of Special Agents. 

The division of stationery, printing and blanks, has charge 
of the purchase and supply of stationery, etc., for the depart- 
ment, for the customs service, and for the internal revenue ser- 
vice. It has also charge of the printing, binding, etc., of 
blank books for the department, the mechanical work being 
done ia the government printing office. It supervises the 
advertising of the treasury, and has the custody and distri- 
bution of the ofi&cial postage stamps and of the cigar stamps 
used by officers in the customs service. 

The assignment and direction of the special agents period- 
ically sent out by the treasury to see that the regular officers 
are doing their duty — is given in charge of another division 
of the department. There are between twenty and thirty of 
these agents regularly employed in the United States, besides 
four assigned to the seal islands of A.laska^ and two to the 
isthmus of Panama. 

♦Among the curious duties assigned to the department presided over 
by our federal minister of finance, is the protection of the seals of 
Alaska from unlicensed hunters. 



29. The Secret Service. 

The special agents of the treasury are supervisors, not spies, 
but there is a "spy" division maintained under the name of 
the division of the secret service. This division originated 
with an annual appropriation bill, and is still maintained in 
the same manner, having no other statutory justification. By 
act of June 23, 1860, $10,000 was appropriated lor the de- 
tection and prosecution of counterfeiters of coins of the United 
States. Further appropriations extended the scope of the 
government detectives to cover the counterfeiteis of treasury 
and national bank notes. United States bonds, and other 
securities. These appropriations were at first expended un- 
der the direction of the solicitor of the treasury, but finally 
a division was organized (under the direction of the solicitor) 
and charged with the duty of detecting all manner of frauds 
upon the government. An appropriation ol $100,000 is an- 
nually asked for, and generally obtained for the use of this 
division. The force employed consists of a chief of division, 
half a dozen clerks, and thirty or forty detectives. The ex- 
penses of the work are large, and naturally no strict account 
can be demanded by congress of the manner in which the 
funds have been expended. 



28. What is the work of the division of stationery? Why are special agents 
employed by the department ? 

29. What is the secret service division of the treasury department? What 
is said of its work ? 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 27 

30. Division of Abandoned Liands, etc. 

The division of abandoned property, lands, etc. , was insti- 
tuted to preserve the records and files of property captured 
or abandoned at the south during the war. It was then the 
bureau of freedmen and abandoned lands ; it is now a department 
division and has charge of all records of property in the hands 
of the government to which claims may be presented. It 
supplies the court of claims with information concerning de- 
relict property in the hands of the treasury to which claims 
have been presented, and thus assists in transferring such 
property to its rightful owners, or in barring unjust and 
fraudulent claims. Salvage from wrecks at sea, and all man- 
ner of property that falls into the hands of the government 
for want of a better owner, is, by this division, taken in charge, 
sold, and the proceeds accounted for. 



31. Bureaus of Printing and Engraving, and of the Mint. 

The treasury bureau of engraving and printing is the lar- 
gest and most complete establishment of its kind in the world* 
The work done by it is a marvel of excellence and accuracy* 
This is a good thing, not only for the credit of the countr^^ 
but also for the protection of the public from counterfeiters. 
The notes, bonds, securities and tax-stamps produced by it 
are so skillfully cut, and printed by such nice and intricate 
processes, that counterfeits of the same are easily discerned 
by experienced cashiers. This bureau of engraving and 
printing has, of course, no conne<^tion with the government's 
printing office where ordinary composition and presswork is 
done. The bureau is exclusive in every way, and is jealously 
guarded both against those who would spy out its secrets, and 
against betrayal of trust on the part of employes. The bureau 
employs about 900 persons, besides a clerical force of ten or 
fifteen in the office. The work is of many grades, requiring 
persons of all degrees of experience and capacity. 

The bureau of the mint at Washington, has simply the 
supervision and direction of the mintage, the actual coinage 
being done at the government mints at Philadelphia, New 
Orleans, Denver, Carson, (Nev.) and San Francisco. Assay 
offices are also located at New York, Charlotte, N. C, Helena, 
Montana, and Boise City, Idaho. The director of the mint is 
the chief officer of the bureau. He acts under the direct 
supervision of the secretary of the treasury. 

80. What are the duties of the division of abandoned lands? 

31. What is said of the government bureau of engraving and printing? Who 
ia chief of the bureau? What bureau supervises the government coinage? 
Where are the mints located ? 



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SZ. Office of the Supervising Architect. 

The number of buildings needed by the government in 
various parts of the union, for post offices and custom houses, 
for court-rooms, etc., as well as the buildings at the national 
capital, require the services of many architects, and hence 
there is — in the treasury department of course — an office of 
the supervising architect. The office was established in 1853, 




Wr^T^^W 



EDWARD O. GRAVES, 
Chief of the Bureau of Engeavixg and Prating. 

[E. O. Graves was born in New York in 1843. He is rather a favorite of 
the civil service reformers— with whom he is in sympathy— on account 
of his long service in the treasury department. Has "worked his way 
up" from a simple clerkship in 1863, to the post of assistant treasurer 
under President Arthur. He had also served as chief examiner of the 
civil service under President Grant. Was appointed to his present po- 
sition by President Cleveland in 1885.] 

under the title of the construction branch of the treasury 
department, and su continued until 1862, when it received 
its present title. It was first headed by a civil engineer 
detailed from the war department, and its affairs were guided 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 29 

by the secretary of the treasury personally, as at that time the 
division was not recognized by congress, and appropriations 
for construction were simply made for expenditure at the dis- 
cretion of the secretary. Since 1864, however, the office of 
supervising architect has had its place in the appropriation 
Vjills, and its accounts are scrutinized by the proper congress- 
ional comuiittee. The office is charged with the purchase of 
sites for public buildings, making designs, etc. , for same, and 
attending to the work of construction, repairing, etc , and also 
with the leasing of buildings rented for government use, and 
with the custody of leases and deeds. 



33. Steamboat Inspection and I^ife Saving Service. 

The steamboat inspection service, headed by a supervising 
inspector-general, is also under the direction of the secretary 
of the treasury. There are ten or twelve supervising inspect- 
ors stationed in different parts of the country, and under these 
about forty local inspectors of steamboat hulls, and fifty to sixty 
inspectors of boilers stationed at the different ports. By these 
the laws intended to guard against incompetence or criminal 
nefijligence on the part of steamboat builders, owners, or offi- 
cers in charge, are enforced and the safety of life and property 
to some extent insured. The boards of local inspectors gi-ant 
certificates to vessels, and licenses to masters, mates, engineers 
and pilots found to be competent, and without these papers a 
steamboat can not be lawfully sent out of port. 

The life-saving service is another beneficent institution on 
the part of the government. This service — re-organized in its 
present form in 1878 — is intended for the rescue of life, and, 
secondly, property, from stranded or otherwise endangered 
vessels on the sea or lake coasts. It is in charge of a general 
superintendent at Washington, and has also local supt-rintend- 
euts in each of the twelve districts into which the United 
States is divided. By these keepers are appointed for the 
stations established at points on the coast, provision made for 
the crew of life-savers, and for the boats and other apparatus. 
The keepers must be especially well qualified and the crew 
experienced in the work lobe performed. The term of service 
for the crews is from September to May, and during this time 
the men are paid §40 per month. Watch by day and patrol 
of the coast by night, are the chief duties, with extraordinary 
demand for hazardous service in case of wreck. 



82. What can you say of the history and duties of the supervising architect? 

83. What provision is made by the government to avert steamboat accidents ? 
To Bave life in case of ship wreck ? Describe the process of rescue where ves- 
■elB are stranded. 



30 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

Where, as usually happens, the wreck is stranded near the 
shore, rescue is effected either by going out in the surf-boat, 
or by getting line communication with the wreck, and bring- 
ing the people ashore in the life-car or breeches-buoy.^ A 
small cannon or mortar, specially contrived for the purpose, is 
used to throw a shot, with line attached, across the wrecked 
vessel, and this mode of rescue, in skillful hands, often proves 
effective in very desperate cases. 

*In the life car, feeble persons, women and children, are shut in to 
escape the buffeting of the waves. The breeches-buoy is ridden by 
those in less danger from exposure. Both buoy and car are drawn 
ashore along the line of communication. 



34, Bureau of Statistics, 

The work of the treasury bureau of statistics, includes the 
collection, arrangement, and classification of statistics con- 
cerning the foreign and domestic trade of the United States. 
From the reports of the collectors of customs, this bureau com- 
piles elaborate tables of figures to show the kind, quantity 
and value of the difi'erent commodities exported or imported. 
Its figures in this line are quite trustworthy; but it also at- 
tempts to compile information from reports of assessors, com- 
mon carriers, etc., with regard to domestic production and 
manufactures, and these are simply approximate reckonings. 
The utility of the bureau is to furnish information for the 
benefit of congress and for the instiuction of students of polit- 
ical almanacs, etc. 



35. Office of the Liglit-House Board. 

This board consists of nine members, three of whom are 
civilians, three naval ofi&cers, and three officers of the corps of 
engineers. The secretary of the treasury — that man-of- all- 
work — is ex-officio president of the board, and controls the 
disbursement of all moneys appropriated for the light-house 
service and the appointment of all persons employed therein, 
except ihe army and navy members of the board. In practice, 
however, the board elects its own chairman and conducts its 
business subject to the approval of the head of the treasury 
department. The board was organized under act of congress 
dated Aug. 31, 1S52. It has established and maintains light 
beacons and fog-signals, in number nearly 6,000, along the 
6,500 miles of sea coast, 3,000 miles of lake coast, and 5,500 
miles of river banks belonging to United States navigable 
waters. 



84, What is expected of the treasury bureau of statistics? 
80. Where are light-houses and fog-signals maintained? By whom it the 
work done ? 



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36. Marine Hospital Service. 

This is an American institntion, devised in this country, and 
not to be fonnd elsewhere. As far back as 1798, congress 
made provision for it and entrusted the disbursement or its 
funds to the president, but in 1870 and 1875, the service was 
reorganized as a part of the treasury department under the 
special direction of a surgeon-general. Briefly it is a medical 
department for the mercantile marine, and has charge of the 
health of persons employed on American trading vessels 
(whether in the coast-wise or foreign trade, ) and of the em- 
ployes of the revenue marine service. The care given to dis- 
abled sailors is not altogether a charity, as a tax of forty cents 
per month is laid on each sailor (while in actual service), the 
same being deducted from his wages as "hospital dues." 

As this service has the duty of inspecting crews, to decide 
as to their physical condition, it was at first entrusted with 
the enforcement of the quarantine laws, but this last-named 
duty has of late years been discharged by the National Board 
of Health. 



37. The Comptrollers of the Treasury. 

Comptroller — literally controller — is the term commonly 
used to designate the oflScer who examines and certifies ac- 
counts. There are two comptrollers in the treasury, besides 
the comptroller of the currency, who has, as w^e shall see, a 
special duty to perform. The first comptroller supervises the 
civil accounts of the government — excepting postoffice ac- 
counts, over which he has only appellate jurisdiction. The 
second comptroller deals with the military and naval ac- 
counts and those of the Indian and pension bureaus. 

Naturally, the office is as old as the treasury department, 
but the division in 1st and 2nd comptrollership dates only 
from 1817. 

The comptroller literally controls the disbursements of the 
departments under his supervision, for his signature must 
accompany that of the secretary of the treasury, and it is still 
a debatable question which of these two officers has the final 
decision as to the legality of a payment. 



38, The Comptroller of the Currency. 

This office dates from 1863, and is the outgrowth of the 
national banking system established during the war. Nation- 



86. What is said of the marine hospital service ? What are its duties ? 

37. Who and what are the treasury comptrollers? What is the extent of 
th^ir powers? 

38. What is the peculiar province of the comptroller of the currency ? Who 
now fills this office ? 



32 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



al bank notes are secured by government bonds on deposit 
with the treasury. The government assumes responsibility 
in thus guaranteeing the redemption of the notes, and the 
bureau under consideration was established to take charge 
of the national bank note issue. Under the direction of the 
comptroller of the currency all national bank bills are printed, 




MILTON J. DURHAM, 
First Compteoller of the Treasury. 

[Milton J. Durham was born in Kentucky in 1824, became a lawyer and 
in 1861-62 was a circuit judge in liis section of the state. In 1874 he was 
elected to congress and continued a member of the house of represent- 
atives for six years. In 1885 he was appointed first comptroller of the 
treasury.] 

all bond deposits held, and all bills of broken banks re- 
deemed in lawful money. Besides these duties, the comp- 
troller has the direction of the bank examiners who «re sent 
out, at irregular intervals, to examine the books and accounts 
of the different banks and see whether Iheir published state- 
ments of financial standing are true. 



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33 



39, The Commissioner of Customs, 

The commissioner of customs might very well be called 
the comptroller of customs, since his duty is the verification 
of the accounts of the customs officers with the treasury, and 
not the administration of revenue laws. The office date's from 







WILLIAM LEE TKENHOLM, 

COMPTEOLLER OF THE CURREXCY. 

[William L. Trenliolm was born in South Carolina In 1836. He served 
in the confederate army during the war. In 1865 he resumed business 
in Charleston ; in 1885 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the 
civil service of the United States. Previous to this he had held no public 
office, except that of city alderman for two terms. In 1886 he was trans- 
ferred to his present office. Like his father (who was secretary of the 
treasury in the southern confederacy), jNIr. Trenholm has shown a taste 
lor questions of finance, and was, pi'evious to his appointment, well 
known through his writings and public addresses,] 

1849, and previous to that its duties were discharged by the 
first comptroller. 



34 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

40. The Auditors of the Treasury. 

Before the accounts of any bureau, office or division go to 
the comptrollers to be verified, they first pass through the 
bands of the proper auditor, who examines each account from 
a bookkeeper's point of view, with no reference to the legality 
of the transactions recorded. 

There are six auditor's offices in the treasury, and among 
these the various accounts are divided according to establi:?hed 
rules and regulations, the nature and reason of which the 
outside public cau not expect to understand. The auditorships 
are distinguished by numbers, as 1st, 2nd, etc. , the number- 
ing having no relation to precedence or seniority. 



41. The Treasurer of the United States. 

This cffice was established in 1789. The treasurer and as- 
sistant- treavSurers (at the sub-treasuries throughout the union) 
receive all moneys paid to the United States government. The 
funds are duly "covered into the treasury" by warrant from 
the secretary, and then become available for payments under 
congressional appropriations. Payments of money are made 
by the treasurer upon warrants issued by the secretary, counter- 
signed by the comptroller and registered by the register of 
the treasury. If the person to be paid is at a distance, a 
draft is sent by mail. This draft may be upon money already 
withdrawn and standing to the credit of the treasurer in any 
bank or sub-treasury, but the effect of the warrant is the 
same— lo take the money from under the treasury's meta- 
phorical "cover." 

All payments are not so formal. The treasurer is also fiscal 
agent of the United States, in paying on demand the interest 
on the public debt, and in redeeming in coin such United States 
notes as may be presented. Of these payments accurate ac- 
count is kept, and the treasurer is compensated by a monthly 
warrant drawn in his favor by the secretary of the treasury. 

The treasurer is also agent for the redemption of the circu- 
lating notes of the national banks, and these banks are re- 
quired to keep a fund on deposit with him for the purpose of 
such redemption. 

He also pays the salaries and mileage fees, etc., of the mem- 
bers of the house of representatives on the certificate of the 
speaker, and for this he is compensated by a warrant from the 
secretary of the treasury. 



89. What is said of the duties of commissioner of customs ? 

40. Who are the auditors of the treasury and what is the nature of their work ? 

41. Who is the United States treasurer ? How is he authorized to put money 
in the treasury ? How to pay it out ? What are his other duties ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 



35 



The treasurer is custodian of Indian trust funds under 
direction of the secretary of the interior; also of the Pacific 
Railway sinking fund, under the supervision of the secretary 
of the treasury. These funds are invested in government 
bonds and receive credit on interest account and are not a 
part of the treasury funds at all. 




'■:'mI/f/:P^:- 



JAMES W. HYATT, 
Teeasueee of the United States. 

[Mr. Hyatt is a native of Norwich, Conn., and still has his residence in 
that city. He has been distinguished as president or manager of various 
railroad companies,and has also been once a member of the state senate 
and was for ten years a bank commissioner of Connecticut. In Januarv. 
1887, he was appointed a national bank examiner for Connecticut arid 
Ehode l««land, and toward the end of the same year was made treasurer 
of the United States.] 

The treasury also receives the fands of the postoffice de- 
partment and disburses the same upon the warrants of the 
postmaster general, duly countersigned by the treasury auditor 
(the 6th) for postoffice accounts. 



m CUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

4a. The Register of the Treasury. 

This office was established in 1789. It is the duty of the 
register to keep a strict account of everj^ receipt and disburse- 
ment on behalf of the government. He receives the verified 
accounts from the various comptrollers, and records the same, to- 
gether with all— or nearly all — warrants for the receipt or pay- 




WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS, 

Register of the Treasury. 

[Gen. Rosecrans is one of the heroes of the late war, wherein he com- 
manded the army of the Mississippi, and the army of the Cmnberland 
in 1862-63. Commanded at Stone River and Chickamauga. Rosecrans 
was born in 1819 ; giaduated at West Point and entered the army, but 
resigned in 1854. He re-entered the service in 1861, and resigned again 
—a major-general—in 1867. m 1868 was minister to Mexico ; from 1881 
to 1885 a member of congress from California. Was appointed register 
in 1885.] 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 37 

ment of money. (Warrants drawn by the postmaster -general and 
those drawn by the secretary of the treasury on requisitions 
from the war and navy departments are not registered.) The 
register's office may be considered the final entry account of 
the treasury bookkeeeping; but the register has duties beyond 
thatof a mere recorder of events. He prepares and sends out 
statements of various accounts, and he also (through collectors 
of customs) registers, licenses, or enrolls, ships having the 
right to fly the American flag. All changes in the names of 
these ships or the captains or commanders thereof, must be re- 
ported to the register. Reports must also be made of the 
building of vessels, of their wreck or destruction, and his books 
must show the line of traffic any American vessel is or ever 
has been engaged in. 

Among the many other things registered, are a particular 
class of United States bonds, which, for the security of the 
bondholders, are kept on the register of the treasury and can- 
not be lawfully transferred from one owner to another with- 
out presentation at the register's office. 



43. Commissioner of Internal Revenae. 

The internal revenue bureau was established by act of 
congress July 1, 1862. Its duty is to superintend the assess- 
ment and collection of all taxes imposed by any law providing 
internal revenue. These laws are now few in number, but 
when the bureau was established they were many. Revenue 
taxes were then imposed upon every form of manufacture, etc. 
that seemed able to contribute to the support of the govern- 
ment. 

The commissioner of internal revenue is the head of the 
bureau. To aid him in interpreting the laws, a special officer 
is appointed, the solicitor of internal revenue, who must be 
especially expert in the criminal and civil law relating to the 
business, and able and willing to aid the commissioner in carry- 
ing out the so-called "compromises" by which the govern- 
ment, in consideration of the payment of taxes due, agrees to 
refrain from criminal prosecution. 

As the internal revenue taxes now imposed are chiefly those 
on whisky and tobacco, the internal revenue service at the 
command of the commissioner, may be said to consist of 
collectors, guagers, and storekeepers, and internal revenue 
agents to watch these officers and see that they perform their 
duties. 



42. Give an aooouat of the duties of the register. Who now occupies this 
office? 

4S. State the origin and purpose of the internal revenue bureau. Who is 
now oommissioner ? What are the internal revenue taxes? How are the 
t&xM asaesMd and collected ? 



38 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

Distillation of alcohol in a small way is not permitted, and 
the large distilleries are watched, and the highwines pro- 
dnced, kept under guard until rectified and sent out in stamped 
barrels, kegs, or other packages for sale in the market. As 
the distiller may not wish to sell at once, the government 
does not demand a prompt payment of the tax, but allows the 
highwines to be stored in bonded warehouses and held for 




^^^^^^ 



JOSEPH S. MILLER, 
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. 

[Joseph S. Miller was born in Virginia in 1848. He had been for some 
years previous to his appointment (m 1885) auditor of West Virginia.] 

three years, if desired, before it need be taken out by the 
payment of the government dues. Altogether so many privi- 
leges are granted to distillers that they would doubtless be 
among the first to oppose a repeal of the present taxes. 

The existing taxes on tobacco are as follows : Manufactured 
tobacco and snuff are taxed eight cents per pound, cigars, $3.00 
per 1,000, and cigarettes, 50 cents per 1,000. In addition to 
these taxes, the manufacturers, dealers and peddlers of tobacco 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 39 

in any form, pay a special tax or license fee. The total re- 
venue derived from tobacco taxes last year was $30,108,067. 
In the e£fort to reduce the revenue of the government, it is 
now proposed to abolish all taxes on tobacco and reduce the 
cost of the weed to the consumer. Judging by the utter- 
ances of the newspaper organs of the tobacco trade, the manu- 
facturers and dealers are opposed to any such abolition, on the 
ground that the business is really "fostered" by the burdens 
laid upon it. 

The government officers in the internal revenue service 
watch closely not only the manufacture, but also the sale of 
the articles taxed, to see that no goods are offered for sale 
that have not the proper stamps affixed and cancelled. As 
the penalties for fraud or neglect are severe, they are able to 
prevent, in a great measure, illicit manufacture and traffic. 
Most frauds upon the government are perpetrated with the 
connivance of officials who have been bribed to neglect their 
duty, and it is to prevent this form of swindling that the 
internal revenue inspectors are sent out. 



44, The Coast and Geodetic Survey Service. 

The purpose of the coast survey service is to make accurate 
maps and charts which will show every part of the coasts, the 
islands, shoals and the roads and places of anchorage, within 
twenty leagues of the shores and the distances between the 
principal capes or headlands. 

As far back as 1807, such a survey was contemplated, and 
congress made the preliminary appropriations. In 1843 a 
plan for the work was laid out, and the president directed the 
secretary of the navy to assign naval officers to command the 
survey parties. The charge of the work was given to the 
secretary of the treasury on the ground that the object and 
purpose of the survey was the benefit of the commercial in- 
terests of the country, which interests were under the pecul- 
iar care of the treasury department. As at present conducted, 
the survey costs the government about §500,000 a year. 



45. The National Board of Health, 

An act of congress dated March 3, 1879, established a nation- 
al board of health, to consist of seven members to be appoint- 
ed by the president, three medical officers from the army, 
navy, and marine hospital service, and one officer from the 
department of justice. The board meets from time to time, 



44. What is the work of the coast and geodetic survey service? How Is it 
connected with the treasury department? 

45. What is expected of the national board of health? How does it discharge 
its duties? 



40 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

at its own convenieDce, and supervises the enforcement of 
quarantine laws, and other national laws to gaard against 
epidemics and protect the health of the American people. The 
board acts chiefly by recommendation to the state and local 
boards of health, but it has powers of its own, under acts of 
congress, and these it exercises chiefly through oflScials al- 
ready in the employ of the treasury. Especially over the 
internatioDal quarantine regulations are the powers of the 
national board efficient and smooth working, and this is so 
because the authority of the treasury department over foreign 
commerce is unquestionable. 



46. Reports from the Treasury Department. 

Unlike the department of state, the treasury department is 
kept under constant surveillance, and reports are annually 
demanded not only from the secretary but also from the chiefs 
of all the offices and bureaus. Special reports on particular 
topics are also frequently demanded for the information of 
congressmen when about to debate a question. Summaries 
of these reports are given to the press as a matter of news, and 
though most people take little interest in the details of the 
reports, the comparative statements showing growth or decline 
from year to year are almost sure to become the basis of dis- 
cussion. Just now the surplus in the federal treasury is a 
topic of all-absorbing interfvSt, and there is not a little dis- 
pute over the proper method of stating the facts. Treasurer 
Jordan, in 1885-86, gained the credit of having " invented 
a form of national- debt statement which conceals rather than 
reveals the condition of the treasury." These statements 
have always been slightly confusing, and the new form of 
statement diifers from the old chiefly in its way of arriving 
at the net balance in thetreasuiy "available for the reduction 
of the debt." The "cash" in the treasury amounts to some- 
thing over five hundred millions, but from this the trea>^urer 
deducts one hundred millions as a necessary fund to rerieem 
United States notes, the full amount of gold and silver certi- 
cates outstanding, and also all fractional coin etc., and so 
reduces his "available" funds to about half the amount 
actually on hand. As it would not do to pay out all the 
money in the treasury, Jordan wished to retain a "necessary 
balance" of one hundred millions, and thus reduce the sur- 
plus really "available for the reduction of the debt" to 
about $150,000,000. The purpose of this computation was 



46. What is said of the aanual reports from the treasury department ? Of 
the form of the monthly treasury statement? Of the dispute as to the real 
surplus ? Of congressional supervision over the treasury bureaus ? 



OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 



41 



to make legislation to reduce the treasury surplus seem less 
imperative. 

The reports from the various bureaus of the department 
are of less interest to the public than the treasurer's report, 
but they are quite as important in the eyes of congress. The 
supervision exercised by congress over the government ex- 




ROGER Q. MILLS, 
Chairmax of the House Committee ox Ways and Means. 

[Eoger Q. Mills was born in Kentucky in lS32,but emigrated to Texas 
at the age of seventeen . He is a la-^TeV by profession. For the past 
twelve years he has represented the ninth district of Texas in the na- 
tional house of representatives.] 

penses and also over the public and private interests affected 
by the conduct of the treasury department, occupies much of 
the time and attention of congressmen, both individually 
and as members of committees. 



42 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



47. The Treasury Relations with Congressional Committees. 

There is a standing committee in the house of representa- 
tives on expenditures in the treasury department and there 
are other expenditure committees, both in the house and sen- 
ate, with which the treasury bureaus have to reckon. But 
the really significant relations between this executive depart- 
ment and the national legislature grow out of the quasi-exec- 




JUSTIN S. MORRILL, 
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance. 

[Justin S. Morrill was born in Strafford, Vt., in 1810. He was elected 
a representative from Vermont to the thirty- fourth congress and re- 
mained in congress till 1866, becoming a prominent Republican leader 
during the war. In 1866 he was elected senator from Vermont and still 
continues to hold that office.] 

utive committees and not out of committees charged with the 
supervision of accounts. The ways and means committee in 



47. How is the treasury affected by supervising committees? How by the 
committees on executive policy? What is said of the house committee of ways 
and means? Of tbe corresponding senate committee? Of the sppropriatloni 
and other oommittees in house and senate ? Of the coinage question ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 43 

the honse has the framing of all bills for raising revenue, 
and the house committee on appropriations has practical con- 
trol of the treasury expenditures.^ 

In parliamentary government, both these functions are exer- 
cised under the direction of the minister of finance — in 
England the chancellor of the exchequer. (In many respects, 
the office of chairman of the house committee on ways and 
means, resembles the chancellorship of the exchequer, and 
for this reason, perhaps, this chairman is considered the party 
leader in the house of representatives. ) The senate committee 
on finance is of less importance than the ways and means com- 
mittee, because it has no power to originate revenue bills. The 
present chairman of this committee, Senator Morrill, has 
really declined in power since, on the 10th of May, 1860, he 
secured the passage by the house of the "Morrill tariff"" biU, 
a law that still remains in force to vex the souls of Democrats 
and free-traders generally. 

In the same way the senate committee on appropriations 
finds its powers curtailed, but as the approval of the senate 
is necessary to the passage of bills, the senate committee have 
extensive powers to prevent legislation. 

The house committees on coinage, banking and currency, 
commerce and merchant marine, and one or two of the sen- 
ate committees of minor importance, have occasional right of 
interference with treasury affairs. The coinage committee is 
just now important because the treasury is engaged in coining 
silver into dollars at the rate of $2,000,000 per month — coining 
it under legal coercion and stowing it away in government 
vaults. Bland of Missouri — the author of the Bland bill for 
the remonetization of silver — is still chairman of the com- 
mittee on coinage, so that no change in the law is to be expect- 
ed. So Ions; as the treasury surplus is increasing, the silver 
question will remain in abeyance, but when it becomes neces- 
sary to readjust the coinage to make the gold and silver dol- 
lars of equal value intrinsically, the stock of silver coin on 
hand may be embarrassing. 

♦This control has been weakened by the change in the rules made 
by the forty-ninth congress. An appropriation necessary to carry a 
bill into effect mav be proposed by the committee having the said bill in 
charge. The regular "budget," however, is still made up by the appro- 
priations committee. 



48. The War Department. 

The war department was established by act of congress in 
1789. At the head of the department is the secretary of war, 
who performs such duties as are enjoined on, or entrusted to, 
him by the president, relative to military commissions, the 



44 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



military forces, and the war-like stores of the United States. 
All matters, in fact, respecting military affairs, ape by law 
and custom made the business of this department. The prec- 
ident is by the constitution commander-in-chief of the army, 
but he communicMes therewith through his war secretary. 
It is made the duty of the secretary of war to report annually 
to congress concerning the state ol the army, the expenditure 




• " - :-^'}:>^:%'::^-' 



WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT, 
Sec BETA KY OF War. 

[William Crowninshield Endicott was born in Salem, Mass., ^^ov. o. 
1826, Was admitted to the MassachusettL« bar and praciiced law unl i 
187.3. when he was appointed aissooiato iusiice of the supreme court o; 
Massachusetts, which office he held till Ts'ovember, 1882, when he re 
signed. He was ]:>emocratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts 
in 1884, but was defeated. In March, 1885, he was appointed secretary 
of war by President Cleveland.] 

of the military appropriations in detail, and other details of 
the department work over which congress has a special super- 
vision. He also has under his direction the examination or 
survey of rivers and harbors, and the improvement of the same 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 45 

at government expense, whenever such work is authorized by 
congress * 

The organization of the office of secretary of war is given as 
follows: Offices of the chief clerk and the disbursing clerk, 
the divisions of correspondence, of records and files, of requi- 
sitions, estimates and accounts, and of the military academy. 
Also a general library, a law library and document rooms are 
component parts of the secretary's office. 

In this department, too. is a branch or division of rebel 
archives. The work of this branch consists principally of the 
examination of original papers captured from or surrendered 
by confederate officers or the confederate government. It is 
engaged in the preparation for publication of the official re- 
cords of the war — a voluminous work, necessarily of some his- 
toric value. It has, however, another field of usefulness, 
namely, the exposure of the anti-union record of public men 
or private claimants for the value of property confiscated or 
destroyed by the union forces during the war. 

*That is, though the coast survey was entrusted to the treasury de- 
partment, on the ground that it contributed chiefly to the commercial 
welfare or the country, the improvement of rivers *and harbors is con- 
structed as preparation for war. The fact that the army engineers are 
employed to carry on the work may account for the inconsistency. 



49. Adjutant General's Oflftce. 

The business of this office is the organization and manage- 
ment of armies. It is the branch through which the military 
orders are issued, and where the records of the army and of 
past wars are preserved. It conducts the recruiting and 
mustering services, and keeps all the rolls and returns required 
for military service, of which there are a great variety. This 
office furnishes statements of ser\ice and military history to 
the auditors of the treasury, and the commissioner of pensions, 
as well as to the proper officers of the war department. It 
answers inquiries of near relatives of soldiers so far as to give 
information of the month when last heard from, whether pres- 
ent or absent, sick or well, and the postoffice address of any 
member of the army. The office is a very large one, employ- 
ing some 200 civilians, besides a great number of officers and 
men, detailed from the army for special service. 



60. The Office of the Inspecting General. 

This is a small office, consisting of an inspector general, a 
single assistant inspector, and one or two subordinates. The 



48. Whea was the war department established? What are Its duties? How 
is the improvement of rivers and harbors included among these? How Is the 
war secretary's oflBce organized ? What is said of the division of rebel archives? 

^. What are the duties of the adjutant general's office? 



46 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

duty of the inspector general includes the examination of the 
army, its arms, equipments, and the state of the different 
corps in drill and discipline, etc., also a quarterly inspection 
of the military prison at Rock Island (111.), concerning which 
an elaborate report must be made to the secretary of war. 



ADJUTANT -GENERAL RICHARD C. DRUM. 

- [Gen. Drum was born in Pennsylvania in 1«25. He served as a volun- 
teer in the Mexican war and was brevetted first lieutenant, for bravery 
at Chapul tepee. From 1861 to 1865 he served as assistant adjutant gen- 
eral at San Francisco, C al. Was brevetted brigadier general in 1865. 
For the past nine years he has been connected with the war department 
at Washmgton and June 15, 1880, was promoted to his present ofiRce.] 



61. Bureau of Military Justice. 
This is the law office of the war department. Here the 
judge-advocate-general receives, revises and causes to be r^ 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 47 

corded, the proceediDgs in all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, 
and military commissions. Here, too, questions of law, sub- 
mitted by the secretary of war or the president of the United 
States with respect to military affairs, are considered and 
elaborate opinions given. 



52. The Si§rnal Office. 

The duties of the signal oflSce of the war department in- 
clude all signal duty, military telegraphs, sea-coast service, 




BRIGADIER-GENERAL A. ^\ GREELY, 
Chief Sigxal Officeb. 

[Gen. Greely was "born in Massachusetts in 1S44. He volunteered In 
1861, served through the ^var and became a lieutenant in the regular 
service in 1867, He served in the signal corps, and iu 1S81 was given 
command of the Ladv Franklin JBay'expedition. Was rescued with six 
companions in 1884, tlie rest of his command of twent>'-five having per- 
ished through starvation. He was promoted to his present position in 
1885. 

and the taking and reporting of meteorological or weather 
observations. The service is divided into four branches — the 



50. What are the duties of the inspector general and his assistants? 

51. What is the "bureau of military justice?" 

52. What is the signal office of the war department? Tell how it is organ- 
ized and give the duties of its several branches. Who is the chief signal officer ? 



48 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 

school of instmction, the signal corps proper, military tele- 
graphs, sea-coast service and meteorological reports. 

The school of instruction is located at Fort Whipple, Va., 
opposite the city of Washington. This is a school where the 
practical duties of the soldier are taught, as well as the maneu- 
veriug of field telegraph trains, rapid telegraph construction, 
management of all signal apparatus used in the field, etc., etc. 
The signal corps proper is composed of ofiicers and men skilled 
in the signal service. In time of war this corps is indispen- 
sable, but in peace it has little to do. The same might be 
said — but with less truth — of the military-telegraph and sea - 
coast service. Even in time of peace rapid communication, by 
extemporized methods, is often desirable, and in case of wreck 
or marine disasters, the sea-coast service — maintained in con- 
nection with the lighi-house and life-saving services — is in 
frequent demand. 



63. The Weather Bureau. 

The weather bureau of the signal office has so far out- 
grown the other divisions of the office, that people are apt to 
forget that the signal service hiis any other duty than that of 
weather predicting. The weather bureau was established in 
accordance with a joint resolution of congress passed Feb. 9, 
1870, which imposed on the signal office the duty of "giving 
notice, by telegraph and signals, of the approach and force of 
storms." Gen. Albert J. Myer, then head of the office, un- 
dertook the development of the proposed scheme of scientific 
weather prediction, and by his skill in organizing the service, 
quickly convinced the public of its value to agriculture and 
commerce. The work now done by the bureau is as follows: 
Stations are established in all parts of the United States, and 
tri-daily reports are sent to Washington, D. C. By means of 
these simultaneous reports, which are very minute, the bu- 
reau is enabled to keep an accurate weather map of the entire 
union, and, by noting the course of storms, to predict, for one 
or two days in advance, what the weather in any particular 
locality will be. These predictions are not certain to be 
fulfilled, but experience has shown that the probability is 
largely in favor of fulfilment, so that the announcements of 
the bureau may be made a guide to action.* 

From the bureau in Washington, despatches are sent out — 
at least as often as three times a day — to the signal officers 

*The percentage of verification has been given as high as 87 to 90 per 
cent. Of late, it has been greatly lowered, mainly (as the chief signal 
ofhcer explains) because the old army officers who had become expert in 
the business, were forced by law to go on the retired list, ana leave 
their duties to new men of little or no experience in the work. 



OVB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 49 

at all ports and inland stations, and these, by the display of 
signal dags and by publication in the papers, warn the people 
what kind of weather to expect. In accordance with a recent 
order of the war department, a special weather forecast is 
made for the railroads of the tjnited States and telegraphed 
to the managers of the various lines shortly after midnight. 
On many roads the locomotives of the morning trains display 
the flags indicating the probable weather for the next twenty- 
fonr hours. These signals are square flags of white, bearing 
blue (T red suns, crescents or stars in the center. Their sig- 
nificance is told in the following easily memorized lines: 

A sun of red is weather warm, A star of red no change impUes, 

A sun of blue is general storm, A blue star local stormv skies, 

A crescent red is weather cold. A square of black on fla^ of white, 

A crescent blue is fair foretold, A cold wave comes in all its might. 



54. Quartermaster General's Office. 

It ig the duty of a quartermaster general to see that the 
army is supplied with clothing, camp and garrison equipage, 
fuel, forage, etc., — everything, in fact, except rations — to pro- 
vide transportation and generally to pay incidental expenses. 
Strict accounts are required of all oflScials in this service, and 
no officer therein is allowed to be financially interested in 
any of the transactions of the office 

Quartermasters are assigned to every military post or 
station, and these employ a large number of civilians in the 
work of transportation and distribution, so that the cost of 
this branch of the service is large, even in time of peace. In 
wartimes the duties and responsibilities of the quartermaster 
general are, of course, increased a thousand-fold, without 
corresponding increase of importance in public estimation, and 
though the success of our jirmies has often depended on the 
efficiency of the supply department, no quartermaster gen- 
eral was ever put forward for president. 



55. Offices of Commissary, Paymaster, and Surgeon, Generals, 

By the subsistence department, under the direction of the 
commissary general, the army is supplied with rations. By 
the paymaster general's department the pay accounts are kept 
straight, and by the medual department — headed by the 
surgeon -general — the sick and wounded in the army are cared 



63. When and how was the weather bureau of the signal office established? 
W bat are its duties and how d»es it work? , 

54. Describe the duties of the quartermaster general. What is said of his im- 
portance in war time? „ _.^ ^ I. s 

55. What duty is assigned to the subsistence department ? Wko has charge ot 
the pay accounts ? What department cares for the sick and wounded ? 



60 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

All these are important branches of the military service in 
peace as in war. They are commanded by officers of the 
army of prescribed rank, the head of each division being neces- 
sarily a brigadier general. 



5Q, The Army Medical Museum. 

This is an institution in the surgeon general's office, and is 
of interest chiefly to surgeons and medical students. Speci- 
mens of morbid anatomy, abnormal gro^vth, records of re- 
markable operations of value in medicine and surgery, are 
liere preserved; and here has been compiled a ''Medical and 
Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion," which is 
reckoned high authority in medical circles. Still the museum 
has only a morbid interest to the general public and is there- 
fore not easy of access. 



57. The Ordnance Office. 

The duties of the ordnance department of the army embrace 
the purchase or manufacture as well as the care, of the guns 
considered necessary to prepare this country for war. It is 
the duty of the chief of orduimce, (who ranks as a brigadier- 
general in the army) to organize and detail to regiments, corps, 
and garrivsons, such members of properly qualitied men — who 
are enlisted under his eonimand — to take charge of, and 
repair the guns, gun-carriages, ammunition wagons, etc., 
that are in store or in use by the army. These men must be 
supplied with proper tools and apparatus, and with necessary 
machinery, artificers' wagons, traveling-forges, etc., and all 
these things must be furnished by the ordnance office. There 
are about twenty five ordnance stations in dilferent parts of 
the country, and these arsenals are under the government of 
the chief of ordnance. 

Since the close of the last war, the United States has given 
little attention to arms, so that its ordnance is old-fashioned 
and not at all equal to the arms of European countries. This 
is especially true with regard to cannon and other heavy 
ordnance. Most of that on hand is of the old smooth-bore 
pattern. As for the monster cannon used in modern naval 
warfare, we have none of them. Congress has recently ap- 
propriated large sums to be expended in the purchase of large 
guns of American manufacture, but it will be years before 
American foundries can turn out guns of the largest size. 
Good-sized cannon — weighing five to ten tons — can now be 



56. What is said of the army medical museum? 

67. Describe the duties of the ordnaace department. What is said of Amer- 
can arms compared witli those of European nations ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 61 

cast in a single piece, instead of being built up, as in the 
European gun works, and this will quickly supply us with 
heavy ordnance of tbe lower class, but it will be long before 
America can match the 100- ton guns made by Krupp and 
Armstrong. 

European countries have recently supplied their armies 
with magazine rifles of improved patterns, and America must 
ultimately follow their example. In his last annual report, 
the chief of ordnance. Gen. S. V. Bennet, said: "The ques- 
tion of a reduced caliber for small arms is now under consider- 
ation by the department. An effective and simple magazine 
gun has become a necessity, and this bureau has during many 
years endeavored, through boards and trials in the field, to 
settle on one that would be satisfactory to the army, but thus 
far without success. From the little that can be learned 
of the magazine systems said to have been adopted abroad, I 
am persuaded that nothing is to be gained by haste at this 
juncture, but that the Springfield arm will continue to 
admirably serve our purpose and the best interest of the 
army, long enough to enable us to determine finally on a mag- 
azine gun that will do credit to the inventive genius of our 
people.' ' 



58. The Office of Engineer Corps . 

The chief of engineers in the army — a brigadier-general — 
commands a corps of engineers which is charged with all 
duties relating to fortifications ; with torpedoes for coast de- 
fenses, with all works, offensive and defensive, military 
bridges, roads, and so on — in fact with all engineering works 
necessary in waging war. In time of peace the services of 
the corps are in less demand, and the engineers are given 
charge of the public grounds in Washington, of the Wash- 
ington aqueduct, and of the government works in the im- 
provement of rivers and harbors.^ Engineers are also assigned 
many other duties ; or they may be called upon to command 
exploring or surveying parties sent out by the government. 

*At present the river and harbor work is in charge of the chief engi- 
neer's office, but a change Is proposed. Jan. 16, 1888, Senator Cullom m- 
troduced a bill to establish, in the war department, a bureau of harbors 
and water ways, the same to be officered by United States army en- 
gineers. This bureau is to be charged with the construction and im- 
provement of harbors and waterways, subject to the provisions of the 
appropriation bills . It is speciallj^ provided, however, that no appro- 
priation shall be expended unless it be sufficient to complete the work, 
or unless provision shall be made for funds necessary for its completion. 
This provision is not to apply to dredging or snagging operations, or to 
works of a temporary nature, its purpose being stated to be to prevent 
the exercise of discretion by the engineers when they know that the 
amount appropriated is insufficient to serve any useful purpose. 



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59. The 3Iississippi River Commission. 

A Mississippi river commission was established by act of 
congress in 1879. Three of its seven members must be taken 
from the army engineers and one from the coast and geodetic 
survey office. The others may be properly qualified civil- 
ians. This commission has charge of the Mississippi river 




PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN, 

General-in-Chief of the Army. 

[Gen Sheridan was bora in Ohio hi 1831 ; was educated at West Point 
where he graduated in 1853. Entering the United States artillery, he 
served in Texas and Oregon until 1855, and afterward commanded a 
body of troops among the Indian tribes. In 1861 he was made colonel 
of a regiment of Michigan volunteers. His war record is well known to 
every reader ot history. He became a major general in 1864 and a lieu- 
tenant general after Sherman's promotion in 1869.] 



Omi FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 53 

and itti tributaries, and prepares plans and estimates in all 
schemes to improve the navigation of the river or to construct 
levees lor the protection of the lowlands from floods. 



60. The United States Army, 

The army of the Uuited States, according to the report of 
its commander in November, 1887, consisted of 2,200 officers 
and 24,236 men, including Indian scouts. These are dis- 
tributed at the army posts throughout the union but find 
act.ve service only in the west, and there only in case of 
ho^tilities with the Indians. As there is no immediate pros- 
pect of war, projects foi' the enlargement or improvement of 
the army receive little attention, and the army is more likely 
to decline than to improve in efficiency in the absence of pub- 
lic interest. 

In organization the army consists of a lieutenant-general, 
three major-generals, sixteen brigadier-generals and a suffi- 
cient number of commissioned officers of lower rank to com- 
mand the live regiments ofartillerv", ten of cavalry, and twenty- 
live of infantry, that now compose the army. These com- 
pose the active list of army officers. There are also many 
officers of all ranks on the retired list, they being driven thither 
by age, infirmity, and the inability of the department to pro- 
vide commands for them. 



61. Tlie West Point Military Academy. 

The military academy established at West Point, N. Y.^ 
in 1802, is intended to provide officers for the army. Each 
congressional district and territory, — including the District 
of Columbia — is allowed to have one cadet at the academy, 
and there arc also ten cadet-appointments at large, in the 
gift of the president. Representatives in congress nominate 
the cadets from their districts, usually after a competitive 
examination. Cadets must be between seventeen and t wenty- 
two years of ag« when appointed, and must pass a physical 
examination and also a school examination in the ordinary 
branches of study. The course is four years, during which 
the cadet is allowed $540 for his expenses, and upon gradu- 
ating he is commissioned a second lieutenant in the army. 

58. What are the duties of the engineer corps? State the change in the organ- 
ization of the department proposed by Senator CuUom. 

69. When was the Mississippi river commission established? How is it com- 
posed and what are its duties? 

60. Give the number of officers and men in the army. Distinguish between 
the commander-in-chief (Art. II, Sec. 2, U.S. Constitution) and the general in 
command ; also between the active and retired lists of the army. 

61. What is the West Point Military Academy ? What is given to, and expected 
of, the cadets? 



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6^. Congrressional Committees and the War Department. 

There is a special house committee to consider the expenses 
of the war department, and besides this both houses main- 
tain a committee on military affairs- The house committee 
is presided over by Townshend of Illinois ; the senate com- 
mittee by Gen. Hawley of Connecticut. These committees 
are of greater dignity than importance in time of peace. Their 




WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, 
Secretary of the Navy. 

[William C. Whitney was born in Tonway, Mass., in 1841. He prac- 
ticed law in New York and held several municipal offices in that city. 
In March, 1885, he became secretary of the navy in the cabinet of Pres- 
ieent Cleveland.] 

sphere of duty is still further limited, by the existence of 
other committees on war department affairs, — as the senate 
committee on coast defenses, the house committee on rivers 
and harbors, and the committee, in each house, that is en- 
trusted with the improvement of the Mississippi river. 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 65 

63. Tiie Navy Department. 

The navy departmeut AS'as established by act of congress 
in 1798. The head of the department is the secretary of the 
navy. The department has charge of all matters relating 
to the construction, arming, equipment or repair of war- 
ships ; to the enlistment and training of officers and crews, 
and to the provisioning of the same and caring for their gen- 
eral welfare. 

The department is divided into eight bureaus as follows: 
Yards and docks, equipment and recruiting, navigation, 
ordnance, construction and repairs, steam-engineering, provi- 
sions and clothing, medicine and surgery. The chiefs of 
these bureaus hold the rank of commodore in the navy. 



64 . Bureau of Yards and Docks. 

Navy yards for the building of war vessels and repairing 
the same are located at Portsmouth, N. H. ; Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia, Washington, Norfolk, Ya., Pensacola, FJa., and 
Mare Island, Cal. There is also a naval station at New Lon- 
don, Conn , and a store ship at Port Royal, S. C. All these 
are under the charge of the bureau of yards and docks, which 
is responsible for the condition of the yards or stations 
whether the same be in use or lying idle. 



65. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. 

The equipment of ships and crews and the enlistment of 
recruits to supply crews, belongs to a separate bureau. The 
recruiting of men for the navy is not so simple a matter as 
the enlistment of army soldiers, since experienced seamen 
must be found. For this reason the naval authorities view 
with alarm the decline of the merchant navy which used to 
train up large numbers of American sailors, who could be in- 
duced, in the hope of big pay and chances of prize money, to 
volunteer for service in the navy. 



66. Bureau of Navigation. 

The bureau of navigation supplies vessels of war with maps, 
charts, chronometers, barometers, flags, signal -lights, glasses 
and stationery. As accuracy is all important in navigation, 
no expense is spared to ensure it. As a thorough knowledge 



62. What is said of the war-department committees of congress? 

63. Wten was the navy department established ? State its duties and how it 
is divided. 

64. What is entrusted to the bureau of yards and docks ? 

65. What is said of the bureau of equipment and recruiting? 



56 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

of astronomy is necessary in determining longitude, and in 
other branches of navigation, a naval observatory has been 
established in charge of the bureau of navigation. (While 
the Washington observatory cannot be said to rival the 
observatory at Greenwich, Eng., yet it is an institution of 
which Americans may be justly proud.) 

There is also a government hydrographic office engaged in 
the preparation ot accurate marine charts, and this institution 
is likewise under the direction of the bureau of navigation. 
The charts prepared by this office are published or reproduced, 
and copies furnished to vessels in the navy and commercial 
marine. The nautical almanac, also supplied by the bureau 
for the improvement of navigation, is prepared for publication 
under the direction of a professor of mathematics, with the 
relative rank of a captain in the navy. 



67 The Biir^nti's of Ordnance, and Constrnction and Re- 
pairs. 

The bureau of naval ordnance resembles the similar bu- 
reau in the war department. It has the care of all engines of 
naval warfare, juid is especially charged with the testing of 
the same, that there may be no failures when in action. 

The bureau of construction and repaire has — as its name 
implies — charge of the building of war vessels and the re- 
pairing of the same at the government docks and na\'y yards. 
Many charges of corrupt mismanagement have been brought 
against this branch of the navy department. Setting aside 
the charges of corruption in the business of purchasing mater- 
ials, the government employment of men in the navy yards 
has been used to influence votes in local and general elec- 
tions, to the great vexation of the civil service reformers. 
The force of employes in certain yards has (it is alleged) 
often been doubled, or even quadrupled, during the weeks 
preceding elections, and thus lucrative employment has been 
offered as an indirect bribe for votes, by politicians influential 
with the employing officers. 



68. Bureau of Steam £ng:ineering. 

This is another important bureau. It has charge of the 
construction and repair of steam-marine engines for the 
navy, and is responsible for the perfect working of such 



66. What is the work of the bureau of navigation? What is said of the Wash- 
inpcton observatory ? Of the hydrographic oflfice ? Of the nautical almanac ? 

67. Describe the work of the bureau of ordnance. Also that of the bureau of 
construction and repairs. What charges have been made against the last-named 
bureau ? 

68. Give the duties of the bureau of steam-engineering and show its impor- 
tftnce. 



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engines on naval vessels. Swiftness of motion has come to 
be recognized as all important in modern naval warfare, and 
to the bureau of steam engineering we must look to main- 
tain the efficiency of our navy in this regard. With the 
rapid incresise in the sea speed of vessels through the im- 
provement of marine engines, it is no slight task to keep the 
bureau of steam engineering equal to the new demands con- 
stantly made upon it. 




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GEORGE W. MELVILLE, 

Engineee-in-Chief of the Navy. 

[George W. Melville, now chief of the bureau of steam -engineering 
(ranking as commodore in the navy) is a native of New York city where 
he was born in 1841. Baving served an apprenticeship to a Brooklyn 
engineer, he was, in 1861, made assistant engineer in the navy and sent 
mto active service. He served through the war and has since remained 
in the navy. He was chief engineer of the Jeanne tte arctic expedition, 
and (Lieut. Danenhower's eyesight having failed him) took command 
of the second cutter when the ship was crushed by the ice. He was again 
sent to the arctic seas, in 1884, as chief engineer of the Greely reUef ex- 
pedition. He was appointed to his present position in 1885. 



58 OUB FEDERAL G0VEBN3IENT, 

69. Bureau of ProTisions and Clothing. 

This bureau has charge of all contracts and purchases for 
the supply of provisions, Tvater for cooking and drinking 
purposes, clothing and small stores for the use of the navy. 
The paymaster general of the navy is chief of this bureau, as 
the supplies of the navy are reckoned in the pay accounts. 



70. Bareau of Medicine and Surgery. 

The bureau of medicine and surgery has charge of the 
health of the officers and crews in the navy, and supplier 
medicines, medical stores, etc., to the ship -surgeons. It 
superintends the United States naval asylum at Philadelphia, 
and the naval hospitals maintained by the government at 
home and abroad. 



71. Iiibrary of ^Var Records. 

As in the war department, there is in the naval depart- 
ment a library of naval war records — now in charge of Prof. J. 
R. Soley. The purpose of these official records is partly the 
compilation of history and partly provision for the better in- 
struction of the service. 



72. The Naval Service. 

The enlisted forces of the navy are of two kinds, the sea- 
men and the marines. Seamen are experienced sailors who 
enlist to work the ship as well as to fight when necessary. 
The marine s are landsmen enlisted to fight afloat or ashore 
as commanded. The marines are enlisted for five years, as 
they must get accustomed to the motion of the vessel, before 
they can be relied upon. 

The regular navy, exclusive of the marines, is disciplined 
even more strictly than the army, and its commissioned 
officers are of all grades, from the admiral at the head of the 
navy, down to midshipmen. There are also petty officers of 
each ship appointed from the able seamen by the officer in 
command. A large proportion of the commissioned officers 
of the navy are now on the retired list. The active list of 
the navy comprises one admiral, one vice-admiral, eight 
rear-admirals, twenty-five commodores, fifty captains, ninety- 
one commanders, eighty lieutenant-commanders, two hun- 



69. What bureau has charge of the pay, provision and clothing accounts of the 
navy? 

70. What bureau provides medicines and medical assistance? 

71. What is said of the library of war records? 

72. Who compose the naval service? Distinguish between marines and sea- 
men, l^^me the chief officer in the navy. Tell what you know of bis career. 



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59 



dred and eighty lientenants, one hundred masters, one hundred 
ensigns and forty-four midshipmen. The admiral, (now D. 
D. Porter) is stationed in the navy department at Washington; 
the vice-admiral is also now stationed at the national capital 
and acts as chairman of the light- house board. Of the rear- 
admirals, one is president of the naval retiring board, another 




DAVID D. PORTER, 
Admikal of the United States Navy. 

[Admiral Porter is the son of Commodore Porter who commanded the 
Essex in the war of 1812. He is over eighty years of age and has served 
in the navy since his entry as midshipman in 1829. He distinguished 
himself as naval conmiander in the war of the rebelhon, and at its close 
was made superintendent of the Annapolis Naval Academy, He was 
made vice-admiral in 1866 and admiral in 1870.] 

presides over the board of inspection and survey, and the 
other six are in command of different squadrons of the navy. 



73. The Naval Academy. 

The United States naval academy, located at Annapolis, 
Md., is an institution for the instruction of young men m 



60 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

seamanship and the art of naval warfare, to fit them to be 
officers in the navy. As in the West Point academy, cadets 
are appointed to the naval academy on the nomination of 
congressmen, or of the president. Cadets passing the requi- 
site examinations are allowed §500 a year for their expenses 
during the six years of the course. Their term of enlistment 
is eight years. Upon graduation, cadets are commissioned 
midshipmen in the navy. 

The naval academy also receives cadet engineers. Of these, 
twenty-five may be appointed each year by the secretary 
of the navy. The course comprises four years at the school 
and two at sea. Upon graduation, these cadets are made 
assistant-engineers in the navy. 

Besides the school for the training of naval officers, tht» 
government maintains ship schools and training stations for 
the education of seamen. Boys are received on recommend- 
ation, and if found qualified are bred at government expense 
for service in the navy. A certain term of service is demand- 
ed of boys thus apprenticed, after which they are free to re- 
enlist or not as they choose. 



74. Cong^ressional Committees and the Navy Department. 

Besides the regular house committee on navy department 
expenditure, both houses maintain a committee on naval 
affairs. That in the house is presided over by Hilary A. 
Herbert of Alabama; the senate committee has for its chair- 
man James Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania. These com- 
mittees are j ust now important, because of the certainty of 
legislation to enlarge the navy and increase its efficiency. The 
forty-ninth congress failed to make sufficient appropriations 
for the building of an adequate navy to defend American 
ports, but that was chiefly because, through the number of 
bills offered, the house could not give the matter sufficient 
attention. As it takes from five to ten years to build a man- 
of-war, prompt action is desirable, and sound judgment on 
the part of those having the matter in charge. Our navy- 
is not as important to us as England's navy is to her, but 
our statesmen might well consider Tennyson's warning to 
those who had the care of England's fleet, and were believed 
to have allowed it to deteriorate. 



75. Comparative Size of Our Nary. 
According to an estimate made in 1886, by T. D.Wilson, 



73. Give the nature and purpose of the Annapolis naval academy. How are 
oadets admitted and provided for, and what does the government gain thereby? 
What othpr naval training schools are maintained? 

74. I^ame the congresaionai committees on the navy ; explain their importftoo^ 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 61 

chief of the bureau of construction and repair, the naval 
strength of the United States is now outranked by those of 
three South American states, two Asiatic and fifteen or six- 
tet-n European powers. By 1892, however, when all the war 
vessels now authorized by congress are completed, our navy 
will have so improved as to outiank those of Brazil, Chili, 
the Argentine Republic, China, Japan, Greece, Portugal, 
Norway and Sweden. It will be on a par with those of 
Turkey, Spain, Holland and Denmark, but will be surpassed 
by the fleets of England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy 
and Kussia. 



76. The Postoffice Department. 

The postoffice department was established temporarily by 
act of congress in 1789, and permanently by the act of May 
8, 1794. The head of the department is the postmaster gen- 
eral, who exercises the chief control and is responsible for 
the condition of the service. There are three assistant post- 
masters general and the supervision of the different branches 
of the postoffice work is divided among the separate offices 
according to traditional custom. 



77. Otiice of the Postmaster General. 

The duties of the office of postmaster general — under the 
immediate direction of the chief clerk of the department — re- 
late to miscellaneous correspondence, to the appointment of 
department employes, to recording and promulgating general 
orders, to the supervision of advertising, and other w^ork not 
specially assigned. In this office, too, are the rooms of minor 
officials as the postoffice topographer, the chief postoffice in- 
spector, and the division of special agents and mail depreda- 
tions. The topographer is engaged in the revision of the 
postoffice maps, which must be kept accurate and altogether 
up to date. He also furnishes intormation for the settlement 
of all government mileage and telegraph accounts. The chief 
postoffice inspector, through his assistants, superAises the 
local offices and mail service; and the division of special agents 
takes account of complaints of loss, irregularities and reported 
violations of the law. 



75. Compare our navy with those of other countries and give relative strens^h. 

76. When was the postoffice established? Name the postmaster general and 
his chief assistants. ,o /^. 

77. What business is assigned to the office of the postmaster general? Give 
he duties of the topographer. Those of the inspection service. . Also those ot 
the special agents' division. 



62 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

78. Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General. 

To the office of the first assistant postmaster general is as- 
signed the duty of establishing and discontinuiDg postoffices, 
and the appointment of postmasters and the clerks in the 
railway mail service, also the consideration of questions of 
salary or allowance, the filing of the bonds of postmasters, 
^vnd correspondence relating to all these matters. To this 




DON M, DICKINSON, 
Postmaster General. 

[Mr. Dickinson was appointed postmaster general in January, 1888, 
Previous to this, he was known as a prominent lawyer of Detroit, Mich., 
who had shown some skill in political management. Occupied in the 
practice of law, he had never sought office for himself,but had, it is said, 
secured the election or appointment of innumerable friends and politi- 
cal allies.] 

office is also attached the division of free delivery, which 
supervises the letter carrier system in the large cities; also 
the Blank Agency (as it is called) that supplies the postal 
service with jequisite blanks, etc. 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 63 

79. Oflace of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. 

To the oflSce of the second assistant postmaster general is 
assigned the business of arranging the mail service and pro- 
viding mail transportation over "star routes/' as they are 
called. These are the land routes over which the mail is 
carried otherwise than by railway. On these routes the 
transportation is provided by contract, and what with the 




ADLAI E. STEYEXSOX, 
First Assistant Postmaster Gexeral. 

[Adlai E. Stevenson was born in Kentucky, in 1835, but removed to 
Illinois when 16 years of age. He was admitted to the bar in Illinois, 
and returning to Kentuclvy held several state offices there. He again 
removed to Bloomington, 'llhnois, where he was elected to the forty- 
fourth, forty-sixth and fortj'-eighth congresses. In July, 1885, he was 
appointed to his present position by President Cleveland.'] 

adveitising for proposals, receiving bids, and awarding con- 
tracts, and seeing that these contracis are duly fulfilled, the 
time of this office is well occupied. It has al>o the making 
of contracts for the railway mail-service and the authorization 



64 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 

of tlie payment of contractors. There is in the office a div- 
ision of inspection which takes account of all complaints from 
postmasters, and others relative to delay or failure in the 
transportation of the mail by contractors.* 

*In the mind of the general public, the name given to these routes- is 
inseparably connected with the "star-routes" trials of 1881-82. By a 
system of fraud, misrepresentation and intrigue, the cost of ninety- 
three of these routes was, during 1879-80, raised from $727,119 to $2,075,- 
095. 



80. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General. 

The office of the third assistant postmaster general is charged 
with the superintendence of the pay accounts, and the other 
financial accounts of the department. Being in charge of the 
revenue and expenditure division, it has the settling of classi- 
fication questions and fixes the rate of postage in disputed 
cases. It also prepares instructions to postmasters concerning 
registration and has general charge of the registry system in 
the United States mails. To this office is attached the division 
of postage-stamps, postal cards and stamped envelopes, and 
also the division of the dead letter office. The offices of the 
respective superintendents of the money -order system, foreign 
mails and railway mail service are also attached to the office 
of the third assistant postmaster general. 



81. The United States Postal Service. 

In the postal service there are between 40,000 and 50,000 
postmasters and 6,000 or more clerks. Clerical assistance is 
provided by the government only in offices of the higher 
grades, though deputy postmasters may be employed by all 
postmasters. The postmasters of the higher grades are nom- 
inated by the president and confirmed by the senate. Those 
of the lower grades are appointed by the first assistant post- 
master general. 



82. Free Delivery, Special Delivery and Money Order Systems. 

In addition to these, there is a free delivery system in large 
cities, and a special delivery service, recently established, a 
money-order and postal note system, and railway and foreign 
mail services. In cities of over 50,000 inhabitants, the mails 



78. Who is first assistant postmaster general and what business is entrusted 
to him? 

7y. How is the second assistant's ofl&ce employed? What are " star routes " 
and what is said of them ? 

80. What branches of the service are found in the third assistant's ofl&ce? 

81. What is said of the postal service of the United States? 

82. Describe the free delivery system. The special delivery system. What is 
aid of the money-order syetem ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 65 

are delivered by letter carriers at government expense. The 
special delivery system was established in accordance with 
section 3 of the postoffice appropriation act of March 3, 1885, 
By this the postmaster s;eneral is authorized to establish in 
cities, towns, and villages containing a population of 4,000 
and over, means of immediate delivery by messenger within 
city limits or within the distance of one mile from the postoffice 
in small towns. An extra postage-fee of ten cents entitles a 
letter to this delivery. Owing to the additional expense of 
postage and the altogether unnecessary demand that a special- 
delivery stamp be used, the new system is little used and 'is 
generally voted a failure. 

The paucity of original American devices for the improve- 
ment of the postal service has often been commented on. The 
money-order and postal-note systems were both imported, 
and both are said to be greatly behind the times, as compared 
with foreign systems now in vogue. However this may be, 
the deficiency of the existing system of public service by the 
transmission of money is admitted. 



83. Railway and Foreign Mail Services. 

The railway mail-service does more credit to American 
talent. By the system, special postoffice cars are attached to 
the regular mail trains and the mail is sorted en-route, in- 
stead of being carried as formerly to central distributing 
offices. In this way a great saviug of time is made, and the 
service to the public is increased. The foreign mail service 
is provided for by treaties — which are negotiated by the 
postmaster general and not by the secretary of state — and it 
is under the direction of a special superintendent. In com- 
munication with the chief commercial cities, the service is 
prompt and the rate reasonable ; but with out of the way points 
our postal communication leaves much to be desired. By 
recent treaties, the United States, Mexico and Canada are 
brought within a postal union. With no increase of postage, 
mail matter of all classes will be carried between any two 
postoffices within this union. Perfect reciprocity is estab- 
lished, each country retaining its own postal receipts. 



84. Dead Letter Office. 

The return-letter division, technically styled the *'Dead 
Letter Office," is entrusted with the examination of unde- 
livered mail- matter. Postal cards, papers, etc., are not sent 
to the dead letter office, and letters bearing the address of the 
writer are returned directly to the same by the postmaster, 
but where the sender's address is unknown letters and par- 



66 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

eels of valae must be sent to the office at WashiDgton. Here 
they are examined and letters are opened if necessary in 
search for the sender's address. If this is found, the letter or 
package is returned at government expense. 

To gain some idea of the work of this office it may be 
noted that the report of John B. Baird, superintendent of 
the dead letter office, shows that the number of pieces of 
original mail matter received during the year ending June 30, 
1887, were 5,335,363, an increase of nearly 114-10 per cent 
over the previous year. In addition to this number there 
were 239,810 letters without inclosures previously sent to the 
writers, but failing of delivery, returned to the office, and 
3 786 letters on hand at the beginning of the year, making a 
total number of pieces handled 5,578,965. This is more than 
18,000 per day, or an average of 46 a minute. Of this number 
19,110 were without any address whatever. 



85. "For the Public Good.'* 

The deficiencies in the postal service naturally occupy more 
of the public attention than its merits, but this does not im- 
ply public ingratitude. The service is maintained by the 
people for the public good, and the demand is made not up- 
on the individual official, but upon the department as a whole. 
The cost of postage has steadily diminished, but with few 
exceptions, reduction has not been generally demanded. So 
long as the people of one section are as well served as those 
of another, there is no public objection to improvements — 
even costly improvements — in the postal service. Grievous 
inequalities in postal rates, irritating requirements and vex- 
atious regulations are burdensome, but the cost of a good pub- 
lic service would be gladly borne. This is a fact that postal 
officials have shown no disposition to learn. If they have 
been zealous, their zeal has rather taken the course of "strict- 
ly-enforcing the law," or "holding matter for additional post- 
age" or hunting out some fancied flaw in the practice of their 
predecessors and ordering a change in the regulations. This 
is a fault that civil service reform seems to aggravate rather 
than to remedy. 

The postal service in all countries is now a government 
monopoly, and discussion of any plan to "throw the service 
open to competition" with common carriers (such as the ex- 



83. What is the railway mail service? How is our foreign mail service pro- 
vided? What arrangement has been made with Canada and Mexico? 

84. What is the "dead letter ofl&ce?" Describe its work and note the extent 
thereof. 

85. What is said of the purpose of the postal service ? Of the demands of the 
public, and the way these demands are met ? 



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press companies) is altogether unprofitable. The main diffi- 
culty seems to be to impress upon the postal officials a sense 
of responsibility to the patrons of the postoffice, even as the 
employes of private corporations are impressed — in cases, of 
course, v^here competition exists. Good service does not im- 
ply servility, and a disposition to run the postoffice for the 
good of the public and without taxing the time and patience 
of patrons, might very v^ell co-exist with a conscientious regard 
for the postal laws. 



86. Postoffice Committees in Congress. 

There is a committee on postoffices and postroads in the. 
house and another with the same title in the senate. The 
house has in addition a committee on expenditures in the 
postoffice department. Moreover, each member is by tradition 
constituted a committee to look after the postoffices in his 
district. If his party is in power, he feels aggrieved if his 
political supporters are not given the postoffice appointments. 
This is especially the case in country districts where the post- 
master is supposed to be influential in politics. Aside from 
gathering the "spoils of victory," and attending to the com- 
plaints or petitions of his constituents, the congressman gives 
attention to the postoffice chiefly when he wishes it to take 
charge of some new device for the gratification of the public 
or the punishment of some monopoly. A government tele- 
graph system in charge of the postoffice, and a national 
system of savings banks with each postoffice in the union a 
branch of the same, are favorite projects. Both these de- 
vices have been tried with good success in England,* but the 
conditions in this country are not the same. 

♦England simply adds a government telegraph to her postal system 
and for a shilling engages to deliver a telegram in any place of import- 
ance within the united kingdom. In small and thickly settled coun- 
tries this can be done at a profit, and even the proposed establishment 
of a telephone service is not a rash venture. As for postal savings 
banks they encourage saving by paying interest, albeit at low rate. 
Local demand does this in America so that government interference is 
unnecessary. 



87. The Interior Department. 

The department of the interior was established by act of 
congress in 1849. At the head of the department is the secre- 
tary of the interior, who is charged with the supervision of 

86. What is said of congrressional superyision of the postal service ? Of postal 
telegraph systems and postal savings banks in America and England? 

87. When was the department of the interior established? What duti«i are 
assigned to it? 



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public business relatiug to the following subjects: Public 
lands, including mines; the Indians; pensions and bounty 
lands ; patents for inventions ; the custody and distribution of 
publications; education; the census; government hospital for 
the insane ; Columbia asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, and the 
territories of the United States. 

In importance the department stands next to that of the 




WILLIAM F. VILAS, 

Secretary of the Interior, 

[William Freeman Vilas was born in Vermont in 1840, but early in life 
moved to Wisconsin. He studied law and was admitted to the Wiscon- 
sin bar In 1860. He volunteered in 1862 and served one year, becoming 
lieutenant colonel, and in 1863 resigned, and resumed the practice of 
law ill Wisconsin. He took an active part in state politics but held no 
office of importance till, in 1885, he was appointed postmaster general 
by President Cleveland and in January, 1888, was transferred to his 
present office.] 

treasury, and no other department, unless it be the ix)st-office, 
exceeds it in the closeness of its relations with the public at 
large. 



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The divisions of the secretary's office are those of appoint- 
ments, disbursements, Indian affairs, public lands and rail- 
road land-grants, pensions, public documents, and the "returns 
office" — the last-named section having charge of all contracts 
made in the departments of war, navy, and interior. 

There are two assistant secretaries and a large clerical force 
in the general office, to say nothing of the employes in the 
different bureaus of the department. 




HENRY L. MULDROW, 

First Assistant Seceetaey of the Interior. 

[Henry Loundes Muldrow was born in Mississippi, about 1835, was ad- 
mitted to the bar 1859 ; served in the confederate army four years,ri sing to 
the rank of colonel. He was elected to the state legislature in IST^-, and 
sent to congress two years later. Here he continued until 1885, when he 
was chosen by Secretary Lamar for the first assistant secretaryship of 
the interior department.] 



88 The General L^md Office. 



The office of commissioner of public lands was established 
in 1812 as a bureau in the treasury department. The duties 



70 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 

of the commissioner pertain to the survey and sale of govern- 
ment lands, and to the issuing of patents for all lands granted 
by the government to private citizens or corporations. The 
commissioner is also an accounting officer, having power to 
audit and settle public accounts relating to government lands. 
Under his direction there is a force of public land surveyors, 
consisting of sixteen surveyors general and their subordinates, 
with offices in different parts of the union. By these, the 
government lands are surveyed and mapped for the benefit of 
the office and the general public. There are also employed 
about 100 registers and as many receivers, who maintain land 
offices at convenient stations in the states and territories, and 
attend to the disposal of lands to settlers according to the acts 
of congress and the rules of the department. 

The agricultural and grazing lands are sold in sections of 
640 acres or fractional parts thereof Where the right of entry 
is made a privilege it is usually restricted to 160 acres, or, — in 
cases where land is considered more valuable — to 80 acres for 
each settler. 

Mineral lands are classed by themselves, and though coal 
lands may be purchased by the section or fractional part 
thereof, the title to other mining lands must remain with the 
government. To encourage prospectors and miners, free mining 
privileges are granted to those locating claims. An individ- 
ual claim may cover 1,500 feet along the mineral vein or lode 
discovered by the prospector. In placer mining, the claim 
may cover a specified acreage, but here the land must be duly 
entered and paid for at the rate of $2.50 per acre. 

The most important of the changes recently made«in the 
land laws is the alien land bill passed by the 49th congress. 
By this it is made unlawful for alien persons or corporations 
to "hereafter acquire, hold or own real estate in any of the 
territories or in the District of Columbia." Exception is 
made in fiivor of foreigners who have declared their intention 
to become citizens of the United States. The purpose of 
the law was to check the purchase of large sections of the 
public domain by foreign capitalists. (A list of twenty-five 
of these has been published, who own in the aggregate over 
twenty million acres of land in the west.) But the law 
does not stop there; it raises an absolute bar to alien invest- 
ment in this class of real estate after a fashion never attempt- 
ed by any country in the new world except the republic of 
Hayti. 



88. Describe the work of the general land office. How are agrricultural and 
coal lands sold ? How are mining lands disposed of? 

89. Show the extent of the work of the general land office. What recommend- 
ations are made by the secretary of the interior ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 71 

89. The Basiness of the General I.and Office. 

To show the extent of the business of this office we quote 
from a summary of the report of the secretary of the interior 
fur 1887: During Hhe fiscal year 25,111,400 acres of laud 
have been disposed of under the acts of congress authorizing 
sales, entries and selections; an increase of 4,862,524 over the 
previous year. The receipts were $12,268,224. The total 
number of entries and filings made during the year was 248,- 
178, covering 38,337,039 acres, an increase of 1,770 over the 
previous year; whilst the number of original homestead entries 
was 52,028, covering an area of 7,594,350 acres; a decrease of 
9,610 entries and 1,550,785 acres. The pre-emption entries 
were 21,403, embracing 3,172,411 acres ; increase 5,691 entries, 
893,193 acres. Under the desert-land act 2,242 entries, 751,- 
014 acres; decrease 276 entries, 2674 acres. Under the timber 
and stone act 655 entries, 80,622 acres, increase 226 entries, 
29,928 acres. Mineral entries 1,432, covering 28,787 acies; 
decrease 19 entries, increase 7,400 acres. The number of pat- 
ents issued during the year upon agricultural lands was 24,- 
558, an increase of 4,073 over the previous year, but a decrease, 
as compared with 1885, of 48,614. The secretary refers t 
the fact that his predecessor in the department called at- 
tention to the great abuses flowing from the illegal acquisition 
of land titles by fictitious entries, and iniquitous exactions 
made tipon bona-fide settlers. To reform this state ol things 
a wholly new set of rules has been put in operation, which 
as yet have been applied only to the mass of cases remain- 
ing as a legacy from past years ; the new cases are now about 
reached. The falling oft" in the number of original home- 
stead, timber culture, and desert-land entries may be ac- 
cepted, says the secretary, as proof that the ^new methods are 
bearing legitimate fruit, and warning speculators and land 
thieves off. He renews his recommendation for the im- 
mediate and total repeal of the pre-emption laws, the timber 
culture acts, and the relinquishment acts, and adds to the list the 
cash entry and desert-land laws. This would leave only the 
original homestead law on the«statute book, and this, the secre- 
tary declares, has proved the wisest and most honest method ot 
disposing of the agricultural public lands. 



90. The Pension Office. 



The pension office— at first a bureau in the war depart- 
ment — was organized in 1833, and became an office in the 
interior by the act organizing the new executive depart- 
ment in 1849. The commissioner of pensions is charged, 
under the direction of the secretary of the interior, with 



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the administration of the laws awarding pensions and with 
the jjaymeut of these pensions to persons entitled to them. 
There are seventeen pension agencies established in different 
parts of the union, and through these the payments are made 
and new applications are received. With the increase in 
the pension list and the constant change in the laws regu- 




GEN. JOHN C. BLACK, 

COMMISSIOXER OF PENSIONS. 

[John C Black was born ni Mississippi in 1839, but at the age of eight 
years removed to Illinois and has since been a citizen of that state. He 
volunteered in 1861 and served through the war, rising to the rank of 
brigadier general. Was disabled by Avounds in both arms when he left 
the service, but has since partially recovered. Has practiced law and 
taken an active part in politics. Was appointed to his present position 
in 1885.] 

la ting the granting of new, and th'e increase of old, pensions, 
the executive ability of the office is taxed to its utmost 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 73 

capacity. Between the duty of guarding against fraudulent 
claims on the one hand, and doing justice to all legitimate 
claims on the other band, the administrators of our govern 
ment pension laws need to be specially well qualified for 
their duties. The fact that they are not so qualified, and 
that the pension office is a bureau of "red tape" in which 
just claims are delayed and often denied upon trivial pre- 
texts, is generally admitted. As a consequence, appeals* are 
more and more frequently made to congress, where the ques- 
tion in individual cases is settled off-hand by a special pen- 
sion act. This state of things is vicious, of course, but it 
has grown out of a lack of public faith in the proper adminis- 
tration of the pension office. 

The pension list now contains verv nearly 400,000 names, 
and the total disbursement of the office is about $75,000,000 
per year. Proposed legislation will, if enacted, greatly in- 
crease these figures, even (according to some estimates) to 
the extent of doubling the cost of the pension list. 



91. Office of Indian Affairs. 

This office was established in 1832 and transferred to the 
interior department in 1849. The head of the office — the 
commissioner of Indian affairs — has charge of all matters 
arising out of treaty relations with the various Indian tribes. 
The fulfillment of all agreements with these tribes, the 
care of the Indian wards of the government, and the dis- 
charge of duties arising out of treaty stipulations on the 
one hand, and out of congressional legislation on the other — 
are assigned to the office of Indian affairs. 

There is a board of Indian commissioners, consisting of ten 
men appointed by the president, who have supervisory powers 
over the conduct of the Indian office and its agents. The 
members of this board serve without compensation beyond 
the payment of traveling expenses, and the purpose of its 
existence is to allow philanthropists an opportunity to see 
that the Indians are not cheated nor wronged in any way. 

The Indian office deals with the tribes through its agents 
appointed at the various reservations. There are over seventy 
of these stations and there is a special force of five Indian 
inspectors sent out from Washington to inspect and report 
on the condition of the agencies. The Indian agent, who 
lives on the reservation, sees to the distribution of rations 



90. What are the duties of the pension office? What is said of its efficiency? 
What is the size of the pension list ? 

91. What is entrusted to the office of Indian affairs? How is the work super- 
vised? Give figures concerning the education of Indians. Also concerniag the 
whole number of Indians still belonging to tribes. 



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and other supplies provided, and guards against illegal 
traflSe by unlicensed traders — is necessarily entrusted with 
much discretionary authority. To prevent abuse of this 
authority the office relies upon its periodical inspection and 
upon the semi-philanthropic supervision carried on by the 
board of Indian commissioners. 




JOHN D. C. ATKINS, 
Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 

[John D. C. Atkins was born in Tennessee in 1825. He studied law 
and was elected to the state legislature and afterwards to the state sen 
ate. Was elected a representative in concrress In 1857. He served in the 
confederate army, was elected to the confederate congress in 1861 and 
again in 1863. He again entered the federal congress, as representative 
from Tennessee in 1874 and remained therein till 1885, when he was ap- 
pointed commissioner of Indian affairs.] 

As to the supplies furnished 1o Indians on reservations, it 
is to be noted that these aie in payment for lands purchased 
by the government. The Indian trust funds created by the 
piin'hases and now held by the government are enormous; 
and, through decline in numbers, many tribes are entitled to 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 76 

incomes altogether out of proportion to their mode of life. 
It is partly with a view to raising their standard of living 
that the government encourages the education of Indians in 
the language and habits of the white race. 

From the annual report of the superintendent of Indian 
schools, made in 1887, it appears that the aggregate expendi- 
ture by the government for the education of Indian children 
durinfif the year was $1,095,379. The whole number of 
Indian children between the ages of six and sixteen years 
is 39,821 ; of this number, 14,932, or about 37 J per cent, at- 
tended school some portion of the year. 

It is a disputed question whether instruction shall be 
given to the Indians in their own tongue or in English only. 
We note that the superintendent, in his report, favors in- 
struction in English exclusively, though he is of the opinion 
that native teachers are the most successful, and suggests 
that a normal school department be made a feature in all the 
larger schools for Indians. 

The "Indians not taxed" — i. e. those belonging to tribes 
and not individual owners of property — are not enumerated 
in the census, but are estimated to number between 225,000 
and 250,000, Only about one fourth of these are located in 
Indian Territory. 



92. The PiUent Office. 

Patents on inventions were first authorized by act of con- 
gress in 1790. They were at first granted by the secretary 
of state, the secretary of war, or the attorney general, and 
the record of the grant, etc., was kept in the state department. 
The patent office, as at present maintained, was established 
in 1849 and reorganized in 1870, according to an act of con- 
gress providing for the better preservation of records, models 
and specifications. 

The commissioner of patents superintends the granting of 
patents, after a proper examination of the records to ascer- 
tain whether the invention seems to be a new one. Owing 
to the destruction of 87,000 models in the great fire in the 
patent office in 1877, the record is necessarily imperfect, ajd 
in any case, the action of the patent office is not conclusive. 
Patents duly issued have been afterward set aside in the 
courts, as covering inventions almost identical with devices 
previously patented. The care taken by the office to dis- 
cover similarity of mechanical principle does not make any 
patent a bar to a suit for infringement. 

During the year 1887, 21,378 patents for inventions were 
issued; 34,420 applications for such patents were received. 



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93. The Censns Office. 



Every ten years a census of the inhabitants of the United 
States is taken, with a view to the reapportionment of rep- 
resentation in the lower house of congress. But since the 
cost of numbering the people is great, the government has 
seen fit to combine with it an inquiry into all manner of 
things connected with the family, so that the census tables 







BENTON J. HALL, 
Commissioner of Patents. 

[Benton J. Hall was born in Ohio, in 1835, but moved to Iowa wI««;m 
quite young. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. n 
was elected to the state legislature in 187? and 1873 and to the sUte s^-n - 
ate in 1882. He also served as a representative in the forty-ninth con 
gress. In 1887 he was appointed commissioner of patents.] 
may give full information concerning the state of the coun- 
try. Some of this additional information is valuable, and 



92. How were patents first issued ? What change has been made ? How far is 
the patent guaranteed ? Give figures showing the work of the patent office. 

93. What is the census, why is it taken and how often T How and why is tiw 
work Inoreaeed ? 



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77 



some of it of no practical use whatever. Moreover, the work 
of compiliDg the statistics collected has so increased that the 
arrangement of one census is scarcely completed before the 
time for another census is at hand. Whether it pays to keep 
a permanent census office at Washington to compile inform- 
ation collected only once in ten years, is a question for ex- 




NATHANIEL D. R. DAWSON, 

COMMISSIONEE OF EDUCATION. 

[X. D. R. Dawson was born in Charleston, S. C. ; but removed to Ala- 
bama, with his parents, in 1842, and has since resided in that state. He 
served in the state legislature and was a candidate for governor in 1884, 
but was defeated. He was appointed to his present position in 1886.] 

perts to answer. Estimates of the value of the work will de- 
pend largely on the degree of interest we take in statistical in- 
formation as such, without regard to possible utilitf . 



78 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 

94. The Bureau of ICduoation. 

The bureau of education was established by act of congress 
in 1867. Its puipose is declared to be to collect statistics 
showing the condition and progress of education in the 
several states and territories, and to diffuse such information 
respecting the organization and management of schools and 
school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the 
people of the United States in the establishment and main- 
tenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote 
the cause of education throughout the country. 

The bureau is under* the direction of the commissioner of 
education, subject to the authority of the secretary of the 
interior. The work of the bureau has become largely a mat- 
ter of routine, and its cost is said to be out of all proportion 
to its utility. 



95. Commissioner of Railroads. 

An act of congress in 1878, established the office of auditor 
of railway accounts as a bureau in the interior department. 
This office has, by additional legislation, been made a com- 
raissionership of railroads with increase of pay but without 
material change of duties. It is the duty of the commissioner 
to prescribe a system of reports to be rendered to him by 
the railroad companies of the west that have received aid 
from the government, and to verify these reports by period- 
ical examination of the accounts of said railroads. He must 
keep himself so far acquainted with the aflfairs of these rail- 
way companies as to be able to assist the proper authorities 
in protecting the government interests arising out of the 
original loans or grants. 



96. Commissioner of Labor. 

The bureau oflabor and labor statistics was established by an 
act of congress in June, 1884, which provided for the appoint- 
ment of a commissioner oflabor by the president, and a chief 
clerk by the secretary of the interior. The work assigned 
to the bureau includes the investigation of the character and 
causes of industrial depression, collection of statistics on the 
variation of wages, the cost of living, the cost of production, 
etc. The purpose of the appointment was to satisfy the de- 



94. State the natare and purpose of the bureau of education . What is said of 
Its utility? 

96. Who is commissioaer of railroads and what are his duties? 

96. When was the bureau of labor established and what is its puriKMeT OlTf 
tbe fist of the latest report made by the commissioi^er of labor, 



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mand for congressional interference in the labor troubles then 
agitating the country. 

The commissioner of labor has made two or three reports 
of a general nature and a special report on the labor strikes 
of the past six years. This report shows that, during the 
six years ending Dec. 31, 1886, there were 3,903 strikes and 
2,182 lockouts in this country, and the total number of em- 




GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, 
Commissioner of Railroads. 

[Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born hi Virginia in 1809. He was ed- 
ucated at West Point, entered the army and served with distinction m 
Florida and afterwards in Mexico. In 1861 he entered the confederate 
service and became one of its most noted generals, serving for the most 
part under Gen. Lee in Virginia. In 1878 he was sent to congress and 
ni 1885 was appointed to his present olfice by President Cleveland.] 

ployes involved in them was 1,478,172. Of these strikes 
46J per cent were successful, 13j partly so, and 40 per cent 
failed. During these six years the employers lost |34, 164,914, 
and the employes $59^948,882 in wages. That is, the 
workingmen lost nearly twice as much as their employers 



80 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

in direct losses, and millions more in indirect, which it may 
take years to make good, if they ever can. 



97. Director of the Geological Survey. 

The office of director of the geological survey was establish- 
ed in 1879. The director is closely connected with the 
government survey, managed by the land office, and his 
special duty is the classification of public lands, and examin- 
ation of the geological structure, the mineral resources, and 
the mining products of the national domain. 

A volume entitled "Mineral Resources of the United States, 
1886,'^ was recently given«to the public by the office of geo- 
logical survey. This work gives the production and value of 
every prominent mineral substance mined in the United 
States, and in addition a compact statement of prices, sources 
of supply and the technical matters which proved important 
during the year. It appears that the total value of the 
mineral products, taken as nearly as po&sible at the point«5 
of production, was more than $465,000,000, the largest min- 
eral production yet recorded in any country. In 1885 the 
value was about $429,000,000. Many substances shared in 
this increase, but particularly iron and steel, which alone 
showed an increase of $30,000,000. In 1885 bituminous coal 
was the most valuable mineral product, but in 1886 it was 
passed by pig-iron, which had a higher total value than 
silver and gold combined. AVonderful progress is shown in 
the use of natural gas, the consumption being more than 
double that of 1885, and twenty times that of 1883. It is esti- 
mated that the value of the coal displaced by natural gas in 
1886 was more than $9,800,000. This is slightly less than 
half the value of the petroleum. 



98. Liocal Government Offices, 

Certain functions in the District of Columbia (including 
the city of Washington), are discharged by officers attached 
to the department of the interior. Among these is the archi- 
tect of the capitol building, who maintains an organized 
office for the alteration and repair of the building and the 
grounds pertaining to the same. 

Also the district recorder of deeds, register of wills, and 
inspector of gas-meters, are nominally in subjection to the 
interior department. 

97. When was the ofl&ce of the director of the geological survey established 
and whattare its duties? Give figures showing the value of mineral products In 
the United States. 

98. How is the department of the Interior concerned in the goTernment of tan 
District of Columbia? 



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The government hospital for the insane (who have lost 
their wits in the government service), the district hospital 
for women, and freedman's hospital and asylum, as well as 
the Columbia institution for the instruction of the deaf and 
dumb, are all under the supervision of the department of the 
interior. 



99. The Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 

In 1881 an act of congress authorized the appointment of 
a fish commissioner "from among the civil officers or employes 
of the government," the intent of the act being that such 
officer should act as commissioner without increase of pay. 
The duty assigned to the office was investigation and experi- 
ment in the line of propagating food fishes, and stocking in- 
land lakes and streams with the same, and, to forward this 
work, appropriations were made by congress. 

Under the direction of the late Commissioner Baird (who 
was also director of the Smithsonian institution), the busi- 
ness was greatly developed, so that last year 100,000,000 
spawn or young fish were distributed to different parts of 
the union. The cost of this work was $175,000. In January, 
1888, congress recognized the importance of the work by es- 
tablishing the commissionership as a separate office with a 
sufficient salarv attached to the same. 



100. Public Document Distribution. 

The publication and distribution of public documents is, 
for the most part, in charge of the department of the interior, 
and aside from bureau and department reports assigned to 
its charge, it has the compilation, publication and distribu- 
tion of the Biennial Meg isier^ which gives a complete list of 
all persons in the employ of the government, together with 
not a little information concerning the said employes. Also 
lists of ships belonging to the United States, contractors and 
printers in receipt of government pay, and various other 
matters that the law makers have seen fit to include in the 
table of requisite contents. 



101. The Interior Department and the Trritories. 

The interior department has naturally much to do with 
the territories through the operations of the land and Indian 
offices. The secretary has likewise exclusive control of pub- 



99. Give the origin of the office of fish commissioner ; also the duties assigned 
and the work accomplished by that office. 

100. How is the interior department concerned in the distribution of public 
documents? 

101. What is said of the interior department in relation to the territories? 



82 OUn PEbJSBAL OOVERI^MENf, 

lie reservations in the territories, such as Yellowstone park, in 
Montana and Wyoming. 

The department has also specially intimate relations witli 
the territorial governments, which are, as far as their execu- 
tive officers are concerned, in direct dependence on the fed- 
eral government. 



10/S. Congressional Committees and the Interior Depart- 
ment. 




HENRY L. DAWES, 
Chaibman of the Senate Committee ox Indian Affairs. 

[Senator Dawes was born in Cummington, ISIass., in 1816, Has been 
a lawyer, editor and school teacher, at different stages of his career. 
Served in the state legislature in 1848 to 1852, and in congress from 1853 
to the present time . Was chosen senator from Massachusetts in 1875 
and re-elected for a second term in 1881.] 

Besides the usual committee on the department expendi- 
tures, the house maintains over a dozen committees on suh- 
jects pertaining to this department, and the senate fully half 
a dozen more. Each house has a committee on public lands, 



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and also one on private land claims. Each has a committee 
on mines and mining, and one on Indian affairs. (The sen- 
ate committee on Indian affairs is presided over by Henry 
L. Dawes of Massachusetts, who is the especial champion of 
the Indian, and has more than once planted a thorn in the 
pillow of the Indian commissioner by his persistence in 
pressing the charges of ill-treatment preferred by the Indians, 




HENRY W. BLAIR, 

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and 

Labor. 

[Senator Blair was born in New Hampshire in I83t. Is a lawyer by 
profession ; served in the union army during the war ; was a member of 
the state legislature in 1866-68 and ot congress in 1873-79. Was chosen 
senator from New Hampshire in 1879 andre- elected in 1885.] 

or by their self- constituted guardians.) The house has also 
a committee on Indian depredations. 

Besides these, each house maintains a committee on pen- 
sions and the house a second one on invalid pensions. There 
are also committees in both houses on patents, on iailway$ 



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and land-grants, on the census, and on education and labor. 
It is noteworthy, perhaps, that whereas the house maintains 
a committee on education and also one on labor, the senate 
relegates both subjects to the care of one committee. Beyond 
the compilation and publication of statistics, our federal 
government has so far done nothing to influence education or 
labor, but the appointment of congressional committees may 
be taken as an expression of sympathy with the voters in- 
terested in these subjects. Moreover, Senator Blair of New Hamp- 
shire the chairman of the senate committee, has for years urged 
an appropriation from the federal treasury of $77,000,000 in aid 
of education. Should this appropriation — which has twice 
passed the senate — run the gantlet of house, president and 
supreme court,"^ the apportionment of the money will at least 
give the committees something to do. 

*Ex -Justice William Strong— retired from the supreme bench on ac- 
count of age— is said to have given his opinion thai the Blair bill is un- 
constitutional. " r do not see," he said in a lecture to the Columbia 
law school, ''how it can be constitutional. It is my opinion that it is 
unconstitutional, and this I believe to be the opinion,also, of the present 
bench." 



103. Independent Offices. 

There are certain executive offices, bureaus, commissions, 
etc., that are not attached to any executive department in 
particular, though they are in some measure subordinate to 
them all. Among these are the congressional library, the 
government printing office, the department of agriculture, 
the Smithsonian institution, and the national museum. Also 
the civil service commission, and the commission on inter- 
state commerce. 

All these institutions would naturally belong to the depart- 
ment of the interior, but in the absence of legislation they 
remain unattached. 



104. The Lilbrary of Cong^ress. 

The library of congress was organized under act of con- 
gress approved Jan. 26, 1802. The collection of books thus 
made has been twice destroyed by fire, once by the British 
in 1814, and again by an accidental fire Dec. 24, 1851. The 
destruction, the second time, was not complete, as 20,000 of 



102. What is said of the congressional committees and the interior depart- 
ment? Who is Senator Dawes? Senator Blair? 

103. What are the independent offices and how are they to be classed ? 

104. Give the history of the congressional library. Describe the copyright reg- 
istry and its utility. 

106. How is the government printing office managed ? Who is now public 
printer? 



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85 



the 55,000 volumes on baud were saved. Generous appropria- 
tions were made by congress to replace the books, and a 
fund of $5,000 to $10,000 per annum has since been provided 
to aid the constant accumulation of books. Besides this, con- 
gress has, from time to time, added special collections to its 
library, of which the library of the Smithsonian institution (40,- 
000 volumes) added in 1866, and the Peter Force library (a 




THOMAS E. BENEDICT, 
The Public Peintee. 

[Mr. Benedict was born in New York in 1839. Is a printer and pub- 
lisher by trade, and for some years ran a political paper in aid or the 
New York Democrats. He served three years in the New York legis- 
lature. Was appointed public printer in 1886.] 

collection for which $100,000 was paid) added in 1867, are the 
most noteworthy. 

The transfer of the registry of copyrights to the library of 
congress was made in 1870, and since that time all publish- 
ers in order to perfect their copyrights must contribute two 



86 OVB FEDERAL QOVERNMEl^T. 

copies of the registered publication to the library. This 
adds materially to the size, if not also to the value of the 
library. 

The registration of copyrights is a very simple process, 
since the library makes do attempt to decide whether the 
book is entitled to copyright protection. It simply records 
the title-page, demands the fee, and issues the certificate of 
entry, leaving the question of legal claims to be decided by 
the courts. 



105. The Government Printing Office. 

The government priDting office is the largest printing and 
binding establishment in theAvoild. It does all of this kind 
of work that is needed by the government except the fine 
work specially entrusted to the treasury bureau of printing 
and engraving. The public printer is under heavy bonds 
to account for th^ money received by him, and on the 
strength of these bonds money is advanced to him by the 
secretary of the treasury to keep the office "going'^ until the 
work is finished and charged to the proper appropriation. 

Congressmen and executive officers authorized to order 
printing at government expense, deal directly with the pub- 
lic printer, who is accountable chiefly to the congressional 
committees on printing. The office has always been charged 
with mismanagement and with increasing the cost to the 
government for the sake of ''making work for the boys.*' 
The average number of persons employed is 1,500. The em- 
ployes are well paid, but are kept in their places only by 
favor of the managers or of congressmen who have a tra- 
ditional right to demand work in the government printing 
office for their proteges. The charge that "benches and 
shelves have had to be raised for idlers to lounge upon," is, 
however, not quite as scandalous as it sounds, for the men 
are paid by the piece, and are idle only when waiting to be 
set to work. 



106. The Department of Agriculture. 

The commissioner of agriculture is at the head of a de- 
partment and is theiefore not to be ranked with the heads of 
bureaus subject to members of the cabinet. There have been 
of late years spasmodic efforts to add to the dignity of the 
commissioner by making him a secretary and a member of 
the cabinet, and a bill effecting this was passed by both 
houses of the forty-ninth congress, and then allowed to die of 
pure neglect in a conference committee. But though apparent- 
ly so highly esteemed, the commissioner is really a very un- 
important public functionary. 



0U£ FJ^D^BAL GOVEBKMEm. m 

It is his duty to procure and preserve information concem- 
iDg agriculture and to publish the same from time to time and 
he is allowed to compile agricultural statistics— an innocent 
occupation enough. He has also the supervision of the pur- 
chase of rare seeds, plants, etc., and th^distribution of as many 
of these as may not be demanded by congressmen on behalf 
of their constituents. Now that congress has authorized the 




NORMAN J. COLMAN, 

COMMISSIOXEK OF AOEICULTrEE. 

[Norman J. Colman was born in Xew York in 1827. He became a law- 
yer and practiced for some years in Indiana. In 1S53 he removed to St. 
LouisLVS'nere he founded Calmcm's Rural rro?/d. an agricultural pa- 
per. He has served in the city council and the state legislature, and 
also, for one term, as heutenant governor of Missouri. He took a prom- 
inent part in ail agi'icultui-al demonstrations, and by virtue of his pub- 
hshing an agricultural paper, became president of innumerable societies 
and associations, and finally, in 1885, commissioner Qt agriculture.] 

establishment of experimental farms in different parts of the 
union, the work of the department in testing new plants and 



S8 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

crops may become of considerable importaDce. The most 
important duty assigned to the commissioner, so far, is the 
investigation of epizootic diseases, and the enforcement of the 
quarantine laws against the sale or transportation of diseased 
stock. In this sphere the commissioner has demonstrated 
his usefulness, and since federal legislation for the extirpa- 
tion of animal diseases and insect pests, is likely to increase, 
the department may yet deserve the greatness which has been 
thrust upon it. 

107. The Sinitlisonian lustitution aud National Museum. 

The Smithsonian Institution derives its name from James 
Smithson, who, in 182G, willed his entire fortune to the 
United States for the purpose of founding such an institution 
at the city of Washington. In 1838 this bequest, amounting 
to $515,169, was paid over to our government. In 1846, con- 
gress passed an act establishing the institution and providing 
that the chief olHcers of the government should ex-officio 
compose the board of regents. The funds of the institution — 
raised by additional bequests, etc., to about $700,000, — have 
been invested, and the annual expenditure is legally restricted 
to the interest on this sum. 

The declared purpose of the establishment is the "increase 
and ditfusion of knowledge among men." A detailed plan, 
in accordance with this general purpose, was framed by Prof 
Joseph Henry — the first secretary of the institution — and 
approved by congress. This plan at first contemplated the 
formation of a scientific library and a museum, but in 1866, 
the library was transferred to the library of congress. Beyond 
this, the institution endeavors to stimulate original research 
and secure the publication of the results of such investigation. 
In this branch of its work congress generally comes to its 
assistance by ordering the publication of works endorsed by 
the institution at government expense. 

In the creation of the national museum, the directors of 
the institution have accomplished wonders, considering the 
limitation of their means. There is a proposal to expand 
the national museum at Washington and make therein, at 
government expense, a vast collection of American antiqui- 
ties and relics of ancient peoples of the western hemisphere. 
Among others, Prof Powell, director of the geological survey, 
is an enthusiastic champion of the project, which he urges 
on the ground that "England, France and Germany are pay- 



106. Who is the commissioner of agriculture and what are his duties? 

107. Give the history of the Smithsonian Institution. What is its purpose? 
What is said of the national museum ? 



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JDg great attention to American antiquities and making far more 
extensive collections than any of the American nations, the 
United States only excepted ; and they are vying with the United 
States in this matter by sending expeditions to American coasts 
and to the interior of the country for this purpose. The muse- 
ums of London, Paris and Berlin already contain large and val- 




S. P. LANGLEY, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

[Prof. Langley was horn at Roxbury, Mass., in 1834. He is best known 
as an astronomer, having written much on that subject, and having 
tauglit the science at Harvard, at the Naval academy at Annapolis,Md., 
and at Pittsburg. He had been connected with the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution for some time before the death, in 1887, of his predecessor in of- 
fice, Spencer F. Baird.^ 

able collections of our antiquities, and the materials of early 
American history are rapidly being carried away to other lands.'^ 



108. The Civil Service Commission. 

The civil service commission was appointed under the 



90 OUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

Pendleton civil service reform bill passed in December, 1882. 
This bill authorized the appointment of a commission of three 
to aid the president in drafting rules for the administration 
of the civil service. The rules are designed, under the law, 
to establish admission to the service by competitive ex- 
amination, tenure during good behavior for a fixed term, 




ALFRED P, EDGERTON, 

Civil Service Commissioner. 

[Alfred P. Edgerton was born in New York in 1813. He has been an 
editor, merchant and politician in his time. He is now a citizen of Indi- 
ana, but long resided in north-western Ohio, where he was sent to con- 
gress for two terms. Has taken prominent part in the Democratic 
party managementj and also in educational movements in his state. He 
was appointed to his present office in 1885.] 

and ^'promotion on a basis of merit and competition." The 
object of the reform is to take the civil service "out of pol-r 
itics," and to put its administration on a business basis, 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 91 

The idea that the 100,000 or more officers of the government 
civil service belong to the party in power, took its rise 
in the practice of President Jackson and his successors, 
who used these offices to reward their political followers. 
With the vast increase in the civil service after 1861, the 
practice became intolerable, and an agitation for reform was 




JOHN H. OBERLY, 
Civil Service Commissioxeb. 

[J. H. Oberly is about fifty years of age. He is a citizen of Illinois, 
where he was a well known Democratic politician previous to the party 
triumph in the national campaign of 18S4. He was first appointed, in 
1885, superintendent of Indian schools, and early in the following year 
he was chosen to till a vacancy in the civil service commission.] 

begun. The growth of the reform has been slow and the old 
belief that "to the victors belong the spoils" of office, can- 
Hot be said to be uprooted in the niinds of politicians. StiU, 



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the Pendleton law has been enforced, admission to the lower 
grades of the "classified" service is now obtainable only by 
competitive examination, and though favoritism is doubtless 
shown, promotion is generally made "on a basis of merit and 
competition." This is the established rule of the service. If 
it is not always obeyed, it is, at least, acknowledged m the 
requirement and intention of the law. 




CHARLES LYMAN, 

Civil Service Commissioner. 

[Mr. Lyman, the Republican member of the commission, is by birth a 
New Englander. He served in the army during the war, and in 1864 
became a clerk in the treasury department. He continued in this 
branch of the civil service till his appointment, by President Arthur, to 
the post of chief examiner of the service under the Pendleton bill. In 
1886, he was appointed to his present position by President Cleveland.) 



100. Rules of the Civil Service. 



Feb. 
service 



3, 1888, the latest revision of the rules of the civil 
commission was approved by the president, and 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 93 

promulgated by his order. Part of these rules relate to special 
branchesof the service, to clerks in the departments, and to 
employes in the various postoffices and custom houses. They 
give particular directions concerning the competitive and non- 
competitive examinatioDS that must precede appointments 
in these branches of the government service. There are also 
nine general rules applicable (except in one or two par- 
ticulars), to all parts of the classified service, and also to some 
parts of the service not yet classified under the Pendleton 
reform bill. For instance, it is made an offense for any office- 
holder, in any branch of the service, to attempt interference 
with elections, or to seek the dismissal of any other employe 
on account of political opinions or political action within 
the rules; and any official, found guilty of such an offense, 
is to be dismissed from the government service. Dismissal 
also threatens any one who shall solicit or receive political 
assessments or contributions for campaign expenses, etc. ; also 
any one who shall dismiss or threaten dismissal to any 
employe for refusing to contribute money for any political 
purpose whatever, or who shall directly or indirectly furnish 
campaign committees with lists of employes and their salaries. 
It is also provided that no question in any examination sl^.all 
be so framed as to elicit the political or religious opinion 
or affiliation of competitors for place, and that if any ap- 
pointing or nominating officer shall attempt, in any way, 
to ascertain the politics or religion of any person who has 
passed an examination, or shall discriminate for or against 
such person, he shall be dismissed from office. By the gen- 
eral rules, also, examinations must precede promotion in 
the different branches of the public service. But persons 
in the classified service who were honorably discharged from 
the military or naval service of the government, and the 
widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors, shall be 
exempt from such examination. 

In the progress of civil service reform, permanence of ten- 
ure seems to have declined in favor. There was at first an 
attempt made to give the officeholder a sort of vested interest 
in his position, so that he could not be deprived of it except 
for manifest cause. This may come in time, but so far the 
responsible managers of the service refuse to account for 
the dismissal of employes, and the new rules offer no protec- 
tion against arbitrary discharge from the public service. It 
is said that since politicians cannot secure the appointment 



108. Define civil service reform as proposed by the Pendleton bill. Who com" 
pose the com mission ? 

109. What is the purpose of the new civil service rules? How do they improve 
(he service ? 



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of their favorites, the demand for the creation of vacancies 
by arbitrary dismissal must be much less than under the 
old system, but this la scarcely a sufficient excuse for drop- 
ping the rule of permanent tenure during good behavior. 



110. The Inter-State Commerce Commission. 

The passage, in January, 1887, of the Reagan-Cullom act for 




JOHN H. REAGAN, 
United States Senator feom Texas. 

[J. H. Reagan was born in Tennessee in 1818. He became a lawyer, 
and, emigratmg to Texas, served in the state legislature, and also as 
judge in the state courts. From 18 >7 to 1861 he was a member of con- 
gress, and under the confederacy he became postmaster general. From 
1875 to 1887 he was a member of Ihe federal nouse of representatives, 
resigning his seat only after his election to the senate.] 

the regulation of inter- state commerce, authorized the ap- 
pointment of a commission to see to the enforcement of the 
law. The law had especially in view the control of through 
lines of railway. During the first session of the forty-ninth 



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95 



congress each house passed a bill for the regulation of inter- 
state railway traffic. The house bill was presented by Repre- 
sentative (now senator) Eeagan of Texas; the senate bill was 
drawn up by Senator Cullom of Illinois. The law finally passed 
was the result of a combination of these two bills, made at a 
conference between the senate and house committees having the 
matter in charge. 




SHELBY M. CULLOM, 
UxiTED States Senator feom Illinois. 

[Senator Cullom was born in Kentucky in 1829. He studied law and 
was admitted to the bar in the state of Illinois. He was elected to the 
state legislature in 1856 and again in 1860. In 1865 he was sent to con- 
gress, wliere he remained until his election, in 1876, to be governor of 
Illinois. He was re-elected governor in 1880 and three years later was 
chosen senator to succeed Judge Davis.] 

The provisions of the bill are many, but its main purpose 
is the regulation of freight and passenger tariffs, to prevent 
unwarrantable discrimination for or against persons and 
places. The adjustment of rates and the investigation of 
eharges of discrimination called for not a Uttle executive 



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responsibility, and hence a commission was provided ; but the 
decision of the commission is not final, as appeal may always 
be taken to the courts. 

The utility of the inter-state commerce law is still a mat- 
ter of dispute, but the administration of the commission ap- 
pointed under the law has given good satisfaction, and though 




THOMAS L. COOLEY, 
Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

[Judge Cooley is an old resident of Michigan, something over fifty 
voars of age. He has been a law professor in the University of Michi- 
gan and a judge of the state supreme court, and is, moreover, very 
familiar with railway management. He has served with credit on sev- 
eral boards of arbitration, and was, at the time of his appointment, 
receiver of the Wabash system of railways.] 

the law is still criticised, there is little or no chance of its 
being repealed. Hence the commission may be considered a 
permanent institution. 



110. State the nature and purpose of the interstate commerce law. Who were 
its authors? Who compose the commission and what are their duties? 

111. What Is the department of justice? State its duties. Who is now at the 
head of the department ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 97 

The commission, as originally appointed March 22, 1887, con- 
sisted of Thomas L. Cooley of Michigan, William R. Morrison 
of Illinois, Augustus Schoonmaker of New York, Aldace F. 
Walker of Vermont and W. L. Bragg of Alabama. 



111. The Department of Justice. 

The oflBice of attorney general is as old as the constitution. 




WILLIAM R. MORRISON, 
Interstate Commeece Com3iissionee. 

[William R. Morrison was born in Illinois in 1825. He is a lawyer by 
profession Served in the army dmlng the war, rismg to the rank of 
brigadier general. Has alwavs been a politcian, and has had twenty 
years' experience as a legislator in state and federal governments. By 
a combination of the labor agitators with the protectionists, he was de- 
feated in the last congressional election, and was therefore free to ac- 
cept his appointment, in 1887, as member of the interstate commerce 
commission.] 

but the term department of justice, as applied to the office, 
isof much later origin. The office, as at present con«titu ed, 
contains the attorney general, the solicitor general, four assist- 
ant attorneys general, two of whom are assigned to the in- 



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tenor and postoffice departments respectively, besides six or 
eight minor law officers who really belong to other depart- 
ments, having no duties beyond giving legal advice to this 
or that bureau or division for the protection of the interests 
of the government. It is the duty of the department pre- 
sided over by the attorney general to consider and report on 
the questions of law submitted by the president or the head 




AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND, 

Attorney General. 

[A. H. Garland was born in Tennessee in 1832, but emigrated to Ar- 
kansas the following year. He served in the confederate congress. 
After the war, he was chosen United States senator, but was refused 
admission. In 1874, he became governor of his state, and in 1877 was 
again sent to the federal senate. Here he remained until 1885, when he 
was appointed attorney general in Cleveland's cabinet.] 

of any executive department, and also to conduct and argue 
the case of the government in any suits at law in which the 
United States may be interested. Beyond this, the attorney 
general has the supervision of the United States district at- 



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99 



torneys and their assistants, and the superintendence of law- 
suits in which these local officers are engaged. 

United States marshals and clerks of the federal circuit 
courts are likewise under the authority of the department of 
justice. The office has also the editing and publication of 
an annual compilation of the legal opinions, court decisions. 




GEORGE A. JENKS, 

Solicitor General. 

[George A. Jenks was born in Pennsylvania in 1836 ; is a lawyer by 
profession, and has served one term in congress. In 1885, he was ap- 
pointed assistant secretary of the interior, and in July, 1886, he was 
transferred to his present position.] 

etc., affecting the interests of the government or the duties of 
federal officers. 



113. Congrressional Committees and the Department of Jas- 

tlce. 

The officers of the department of justice give legal advice 
to the officials of the executive department, but they are not 
expected to favor congressmen in this way. Congress is self- 



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sufficient, and either house will be found willing to support 
the opinion of its judiciary committee as opposed to both 
president and attorney general on any question of legal prac- 
tice or constitutional law. This is especially the case with 
the senate, and as that body is politically opposed to the ad- 
ministration, and as the chairman of its judiciary committee 
is no less a person than Senator Edmunds, the chances of a 




GEORGE F. EDMUNDS, 
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commitke. 

[Senator Edmunds was born in Vermont in 1828. He is prominen 
botli as a lawyer and as a politician ; served in the state legislature 
from 1854 to 1862 ; was appomted United States senator to fill a vacancy 
in 1866, and has been elected to that office. Is a party leader and per- 
ennial candidate for the presidency.] 

controversy are not small. The last controversy of note was 
concerning the duty of the departments to lay before the sen- 
ate any papers, letters, etc., that might be demanded by that 
body. In that case the senate was powerless to enforce its 
demand, but the occasion furnished a fine chance to denounce 
the president. 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 101 

The chairman of the committee in the house, Culberson of 
Texas, is of the same political party as the president and is 
therefore less likely to oppose the administration. Moreover, 
he lacks the reputation for legal wisdom necessary to support 
him in such a controversy. For all that, the house has al- 
ways shown a jealous sense of its power to interpret as well 
as pass laws, and has, in past times, shown its willingness to 
oppose even the federal supreme court. 



THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT, 



113. The Federal Supreme Court. 

The judicial branch of the federal government consists of 
one supreme court, nine circuit courts, one court of claims, 
and fifty-eight district courts of the United States. (There 
13 also a supreme court of the District of Columbia, but this 
may be classed with the courts maintained in the territories 
by the national power of the government.) 

The federal supreme court is theoretically equal to con- 
gress or the president in dignity and authority. Its judg- 
ment concerning the bindiDg force of the constitution, the 
laws and the treaties of the United States, is acknowledged 
to be final, and is generally deferred to. But it is to be noted 
that the co-ordinate branches of the government cannot coerce 
each other, and that upon occasion the decision of the supreme 
court has been ignored by the president and also by congress. 
There is no remedy for this defiance of authority except that 
suggested by Dogberry. "Let them alone till they are sober, 
and if they then make you no better answer, say they are not 
the men you took them for." 

The supreme court consists of a chief justice and eight 
associate justices.* The court holds one regular term each 
year beginning the second Monday in October, and special 
terms when necessary. When the court is not in session the 
individual justices are required to assist the circuit judges 
in holding courts at the points in their regular circuits. Thus 

♦At present the court is composed as follows : Chief Justice, Morrison 
R. Waite, of Ohio. Assistant Justices, Samuel F. [Miller of Iowa, Ste- 
phen J. Field of California, Joseph P. Bradlev of Xew Jersey, John ^^ , 
Harlan of Kentuckv, Lucius Q. C. Lamar of "^Mississippi, Stanlev Mat- 
thews of Ohio, Horace Gray of Massachusetts and Samuel Biatchford 
of New York. 



112. What Is said of the judiciary committees of congress? Of Senator Ed- 
munds? 

118. Of what does the judicial branch of the government consist? What is 
said of the authority of the supreme court? Who compose ttie court? What 
ar« the daties of the justices ? la what cases has the court jurisdiction ? 



10^ 



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the chief justice is assigned to the fourth judicial circuit 
consisting of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro- 
lina and South Carolina, and when the supreme court is not 
in session, he assists the circuit judge, Hugh L. Bond, in con- 
ducting the regular courts in those states. Since appeal can 
be taken from the circuit to the supreme court it often happens 
that a justice hears the same case argued twice, first in the 




MORRISON R. WAITE, 

Chief Justice of the Supreme Coubt. 

[Judge Waite was born In Connecticut in 1816. He moved to Ohio in 
1838, became a lawyer, served a term in the state legislature, and finally 
settled down to the practice of his profession in Toledo. He was sent 
as one of the counsel to represent the United States before the Geneva 
board of arbitration on the Aiihama claims, but beyond this had not a 
national reputation, and his appointment to the chief justiceship by 
President Grant in 1874, took the country by surprise. He has, however, 
since shown marked fitness for the position.] 

circuit court, and secondly before the supreme bench in session 
at Washington. 



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103 



The supreme court has final decision concerning the inter- 
pretation of the constitution and the federal laws and treaties 
made in conformity with the constitution — and hence all 
cases involving "federal questions" may be taken to the court 
by appeal. But there are some cases that may be begun iu 
the supreme court. These are cases affecting the diplomatic 




SAMUEL F. MILLEE, 
Associate Justice of the Supkeme Coubt. 

[Judge Miller was born In Kentucky in 1816, He studied medicine 
and practiced it eight years before attempting the study of law. As a 
lawyer, he located at Keokuk, Iowa, where he became somewhat prom- 
inent as a pohtician. In 1862, he was appointed a judge of the supreme 
comt by President Lincoln.] 

representatives of other countries in America, and also civil 
suits between states or between the state and federal govern- 



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ments. (Suit brought against any state by aliens or citizena 
of other states are barred from the federal courts by the 
eleventh constitutional amendment.) 



114. The Work of the Supreme Court. 

Of late years the supreme court has been over-burdened 
by the increase in the number of appeals made to it, so that 




STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD, 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Couet. 

[Jud^e Field was born in Connecticut in 1816. He studied law and 
began its i)ractice as the partner of his brother, David D. Field of New 
York, but in 1849 emigrated to California, where he was soon elected to 
the state legislature. In 1859 he became chief justice of the state, and 
four years later was made a justice of the federal supreme court,] 

cases are delayed for j^ears awaiting their turn. To show the 
extent of this increase we quote the figures recently given by 
Justice Harlan in an argument to prove that the court had 
not declined in ability to despatch public business: "In 1803 
the whole number of cases on the docket of the supreme court 
was fifty-one. In 1819, when the court determined the great 



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105 



cases of Sturges vs. Crowninshield, McCulloch vs. State of 
Maryland, and Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, there were 
131 cases, of which fifty-three were disposed of during the 
term. But in 1860, the number on its docket had increased 
to 310, of which ninety-one were determined during the term. 
In 1870, the docket contained 636 cares, of which 280 were 
decided during the term. In 1880 the whole number w^as 




JOHN M. h A EL AN, 

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 

[Judge Harlan was born in Kentucky in 1833, and is still a citizen of 
that state. He became a lawyer, and ere he reached his thirtieth year, 
had been elected attorney general of his state. He was well known as 
a politician and public speaker at the time of his appointment by Pres- 
ident Hayes, in 1877, to be a justice of the supreme court.] 

1,202, of which 365 were disposed of during the term. In 
1886 the docket had increased to 1,396 cases, of which 451 
were disposed of during the term." 

Some means of relief must he devised, and several measures 
have been proposed in congress. So long as the court must 
sit en banc — that is, all together, — no increase in the number 



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of judges will help matters. Heuce a bill was introduced in 
1881 to divide the court into three branches of three judges, 
and give each branch exclusive jurisdiction over a particular 
class of appealed cases. Original -jurisdiction cases, and cases 
brought by writ of error from any state supreme court, were 
lobe heard by the full court. In other cases the decision of 
the branch court would stand, unless in cases of disagree- 




LUCIUS Q. C. LAMAR, 
Associate Justice of the Supeeme Court. 

[Lucius Q. C. Lamar was born in Georgia in 1825 ; was educated as a 
lawver, but turned his attention to teaching and be.-ame a professor of 
mathematics in the Mississippi state university. Returning to Georgia, 
he there served a term in the legislature, but iii 1^54 concluded to make 
his home in Mississippi. He was elected to the 35th and 36th congresses. 
Und' r the confederacy, he served in the army and also as minister to 
Russia. After the war he became professor of law in the Mississippi 
state university, until his election to the 43rd congress. In 1877 he was 
chosen senator ; in 1885 he left the senate to become secretary of the 
interior, and in January, 1888, was made a justice of the supreme court.] 

menf , where the dissenting judge might require that the de* 
cision of his colleagues be reviewed by the full court. 



OUB FEDERAL G0VEEN3IENT. 107 

To this measure the supreme court are opposed. ' 'The con- 
stitution makes provision for one supreme court,'' says Jus- 
tice Harlan. "Without expressing any opinion as to whether 
its division into sections would be admissible under the con- 
stitution, I may say that it would be unfortunate for the 
country if that court should ever be so enlarged in the num- 
ber of its members as practically to convert it into a town 
meeting upon questions of constitutional or general law. The 
remedy for the defects of our judicial system is with another 
branch of the government. It is for congress to provide ade- 
quate judicial force for the prompt disposal of business in all 
of the federal courts, including an intermediate court, or courts 
of appeals which may finally determine many cases that, un- 
der existing legislation, may be brought to the supreme court." 

A measure of the kind here suggested — one creating an 
inferior appellate court whose decision was to be final in cases 
of minor importance — was introduced in the senate by the 
late David Davis in 1882. Xo action has yet been taken by 
either house of congress in the matter. 



115. United States Circuit and District Courts. 

For the proper enforcement of the laws of the United States, 
and for the settlement of disputes between citizens of differ- 
ent states, or between Americans and citizens of foreign 
countries, two grades of federal courts are established. These 
are the district courts of the fifiy-eight districts into which 
the union is di^-ided, and the nine circuit courts above men- 
tioned which form a sort of steppiog stone between the dis- 
trict and the supreme court. Civil suits may be begun in 
the circuit courts, but only under specified conditions and 
only when the sum in dispute amounts to $500 or more. 
Criminal proceedings and minor suits must begin in the lower 
courts. 



116. The Court of Claims. 

The court of claims is of comparatively recent origin, being 
established by act of congress of Feb. 24, 1885, and its pur- 
pose is the hearing of claims against the government. It 
rests with congress finally to say whether a claim shall bn 
paid, because congress must appropriate the money to pay 
it, but claimants are allowed to prove the justice of their 
demands before the courts and thus force the matter on the 
attention of the government. 

114. How has the work of the supreme court increased ? What proposals have 
been made for its relief? How are these regarded by the justices themselyes? 

115. What are the Inferior federal courts? In \rhat cases have they jurii* 
diction? 



108 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

The court of claims has jurisdiction over all claims fouud- 
ed on any law of congress or on any regulation of an execu- 
nve department or on any contract with the government. 
Claims in equity presented to congress are often referred to 
this court and in such cases the fact of reference, is taken to 
confer jurisdiction. 

One of the laws passed at the very end of the last session of 
the forty-ninth congress was an act permitting the bringing 
of suits against the United States in the disrict or circuit 
courts throughout the countiy, instead of in the court of 
claims at Washington. Heretofore, any person desiring to 
bring suit against the government, was obliged to file his 
claim in the special court at the national capital, and to wait 
months or years for a hearing. Under the new law the 
claim, if for less than %\fiOi)^ can be brought in any district 
court, or if over $1,000 and under ?10, 000, before any circuit 
court of the United States in any part of the union. "War 
dainis" and claims rejected by any authorized court or com- 
mission, are expreasly barred, as are also claims more than 
six years old; but outside of these limitations the govern- 
ment consents to stand suit exactly as any private citizen 
would V)e obliged to do. 



SPHERE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



111. The Distinction between StateH and Territories. 

Our federal authority is foriuod by a union of states acting 
in their corporate capacity, and l)y a union of the people of 
those states, acting individually. Within the union, the gov- 
ernment is dependent on the consent (though not by any means 
the unanimous consent) of its component parts. Outside the 
union, the government stands as one — a truly national govern- 
ment. Towards the territories of the United StatCvS, our gov- 
ernment presents this same aspect of unity. Once admitted to 
the union, the whilom territories become constituent parts; be- 
fore admission, they are in a state of infancy; they have no 
rights but by the free grant of the federal government. The 
power of the government over the territories is practi( ally un- 
limited. (This was denied in 1856-60, on various pretexts. 
The pro-slavery men held that congress was debarred, by the 
constitution, from prohibiting slavery in the territories. The 
Eepublicans maintained that "a higher law" dedicated the 



116. What is the court of claims, and what is expected of it T How may sails 
be brought against the government? 

117. Distinguish between states and territories in relation to the federal got- 
ernment. What is said of the power of the nation over the territories? 



O UB FEDEBA L GO VEBN3IENT. 109 

national domain to freedom. The Douglas Democrats tried to 
establish iilie" squatter sovereignty " principle, giving the ter- 
ritories some of the rights of states. All these political pretexts 
disappeared with the change of conditions, and the legislative 
supremacy of the government in the territories is now unques- 
tioned.) 

Because the territories are settled by our own kinsmen, 
their absolute subjection has been made tolerable, and we have 
no Ireland contending for home rule. The only approach to 
this is in the condition of Utah, where the Mormons are asked 
to submit to extinction, to save the rest of the country from 
distraction. 

If we should suppose, for a moment, that the political sup- 
pression of the Mormons (by Gentile immigration) was impos- 
sible, we would foresee a complication of even greater intricacy 
than our present Utah question. Still, there is no constitu- 
tional bar to our holding a territory forever in a state of sub- 
jection. 



118. What Cannot be Done*. 

Though the points cannot be said to be authoritatively settled, 
it seems to be admitted that congress, as the law-making power 
of the federal government, cannot (1) admit a state on suffer- 
ance, or (2) exercise greater authority over one state than over 
another. Utah now asks to be admitted as a state, offering to 
put herself in a condition of special subjection on the question 
of polygamy. Her constitutional prohibition of polygamy is 
not to be changed in any way unless with the consent of con- 
gress. But should the people of Utah hereafter violate this 
pledge, it is hard to see what congress could do to coerce the 
state, beyond expelling or excluding its representatives from 
their seats in the federal legislature. 

On the other hand it is always in the power of the states to 
amend the constitution and give to congress exclusive authority 
over matrimony and divorce. This would result in uniformity 
of legislation on this subject and do away with the scandalous 
variety of state laws concerning wedlock. 

♦In considering what cannot be done, we are reminded of what actu- 
ally was done in dealing with the southern states during the reconstruc- 
tion period. Butthat was done under conditions not likely to occur 
again, and during a period of furore, that happily passed away. 



119. The Government of the Territories. 

Because congress has power to govern the territories despot- 
ically, it does not follow that this power is habitually exercised. 
The general form of the government established is liberal and 
iuited to the desires of the inhabitants. 



110 OUB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 

The executive power in the territorial government is vested 
in a governor appointed by the president. He administers the 
laws of the territory and the federal laws applicable to the ter- 
ritory. He has full power to pardon offences agaiDSt the for- 
mer laws, but can only suspend sentence in case of offense 
against United States law and refer the case to the president 
for pardon. In his duties he is assisted by a secretary for the 
territory who is also appointed by the federal power. 

Territorial laws are made by a council and house of repre- 
sentatives elected by the people. The laws must be approved 
by the governor and, except in Dakota, Montana, Idaho and 
Wyoming, they must likewise receive the approval of congress. 
Territorial laws are,ofcourse,nullified by contrary legislation on 
the part of congress. Territorial courts are held by judges, etc., 
appointed as the law directs either by the governor or by the 
president of the United States. 

Meanwhile the territory, subject as it is to the caprice of 
congress, has no vote in that body, though it may send a dele- 
gate to join in the debates of the national house of representa- 
tives on territorial questions. 



120. The Admission of Territories. 

Before territories can organize as states, congress must pass 
an enabling act, and after the state is organized it must be 
formally admitted by the approval of its constitution and the 
seating of its members of congress. When, for any reason, it is 
desired to exclude a territory, it is customary to refuse to pass 
the enabling act. Territories have several times manifested 
their impatience by organizing in advance of congressional per- 
mission, but this counts for nothing unless congress sees fit to 
acknowledge its fault by approving the premature action. 

Just now, several territories are clamoring for admission. 
Chief among these is Dakota, which has been an organized ter- 
ritory for twenty-eight years, and has been asking admission 
for five or six years. It is a fair inference from circumstances, 
that Dakota is kept out because she is, or is supposed to be. 
Republican in politics, while the majority in the lower house 
of congress is Democratic ; but it may be urged, on the other 
hand, that there is no real haste for the admission of the terri- 
tory, and that the question of dividing the territory requires 
time for proper settlement. There are rival movements for the 
admission of Dakota. One party asks the admission of the en- 
tire territory and the other asks the admission of South Dakota 



118. How is the equality of the states sruaranteed? 

119. How are territories admitted to the anion? Explain the case of Dakota 
and the proposition to divide the territory. Who is William M. Sprinfer? 
W^at four states does he propose to admit ? 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



Ill 



only, leaviog North Dakota to reorganize as a separate territory. 
A popular vote in the territory in the fall of 1887, showed a 
majority of three or four thousand in favor of division, but it 
is noteworthy that this majority was altogether in South Dak- 
ota. In North Dakota the vote showed two to one against 
division. 




NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. 

[Dakota covers 149,100 square miles, and has a population of about 
400,000, two-thirds of which is in South Dakota . The total valuation of 
property in 1887 was $157,084,366. In the bill to admit the territory as a 
single state, Dakota is allowed three seats in the national house of rep- 
resentatives, so that she would have five electoral votes for president.] 

The obstacle to Dakota's admission is in the national house 
of representatives, and in that body William M. Springer of 
Illinoii* is cbairmaii of the committee on territories. Mr. 



112 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



vSpringer, who may be thought to hold the key to this dead- 
lock, has proposed, as a compromise measure, that, by a general 
bill, four states be admitted — Washington, Montana, New Mex- 
ico and Dakota, the last-named as a single state. Presump- 
tively, Dakota and Washington are accounted Republican, and 
Montana and New Mexico, Democratic. These other territories 
have asked for admission, but have not shown as much anxiety 
for it as Dakota has done. 




-^^^^^^5??^5^ 



WILLIAM M. SPRINGER, 

Chairman of the House Committee ox Territories. 

[William ^\. Springer was born in Indiana in lase, biitiu 1848 removed 
witli his i^arents to .Jacksonville, 111. He is a lawyer by profession, and 
has been in congress since 1877.] 

Alaska still remains unorganized as a territory. It is ruled 
under the laws of congress by a governor appointed by the 
president. Besides Alaska, there are still unorganized "No 
Man's Land," in the western part of the Indian territory, and 
also Oklahoma, near the center of the same province. The 



OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 113 

house committee on territories has prepared a bill to cut off the 
western part of Indian Territory and organize it as a terri- 
tory for white men. This would opeu new lands for settle- 
ment and provide a government for a section of country now 
virtually without the pale of law. 



131. The Rights of Stales. 

Territories have only the rights delegated to them by con- 
ci;ress, but states have all the rights and powers not expressly 
delegated tv) the federal government in the constitution. A 
study of the features of that constitution and an exact defin- 
ition of the boundaries between state and federal authority is 
rather beyond the scope of the present work, and, indeed, is 
it not set forth at full length in half a dozen text books? The 
division of pov/er between the federal government and that 
of the state is arbitrary and beyond any simple classification. 
Tliis is so far the case, that even congressmen do not know 
the extent of their own powers, and have to be constantly 
checked by the supreme court. ^• 

Moreover powers olten reside in both state and federal 
governments. In such case, both may make laws, the fed- 
eral power being held supreme when the two conflict. 

*Tlie supreme court does not volunteer its opinions, but gives them as 
a i)art of the decision of suits at law. None the less are contrary de- 
cisions felt to be a rebuke to congressional usurpation. 



123. What wc may Expect. 

A close knowledge of the constitutional limitations of our 
federal government is necessary to decide off-hand what as- 
sumptions of power we may expect from it. Gross mistakes 
in this regard are usually made by foreigners. Englishmen 
do not understand why the United States does not exercise 
police authority to suppress an Irish dynamite fiend in New 
York; European anarchists threaten the president of the 
United States if he .does not pardon men convicted in state 
courts, and similar appeals are constantly made to the govern- 
ment for action entirely beyond its sphere. 

Americans are better informed. They may appeal to congress 
to establish woman suffrage, but only because they remember 
that congress in reconstructing the south enforced negro suffrage 
in advance of the fifteenth amendment. They appeal to the 



121. What is said of the rights of states ? 

122. How is congress urged to overstep its constitutional authority ? What is 
said of the tendency to centralization ? Of the opposition thereto ? 



114 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 

federal government to prohibit liquor traffic, because "Lincoln 
abolished slavery" by a proclamation. They demand con- 
gressional interference with a labor strike on a railroad 
operating with the state of Pennsylvania partly because of 
congressional regulation of interstate commerce, and partly 
in imitation of Balak^s summoning Balaam to curse the chil- 
dren of Israel.^ Of course they are quickly informed, or re- 
minded, that they are asking more than congress has power to 
grant, but, being convinced that the true friend of reform is 
the congressional Codlin and not the states-assembly Short, 
they generally begin an agitation for the increase of the powers 
of congress by constitutional amendment. Of course they agi- 
tate in vain, lor the labor of Sisyphus w£is as nothing to the 
work of carrying an amendment over the heights of popular 
indiHeience, but 'theirs, at least, is everlasting hope," and with 
that they seem to be content. This popular disposition to ap- 
peal to the federal government instead of to the states is note- 
worthy, because it tends to centralization by gradually increas- 
ing the limits of U deral authority. This tendency is so strong, 
tliat many political seers prophesy the future exaltation of the 
fedeial power in domestic affairs, at the expense of the state 
governments. There is less likelihood of this than at first ap- 
pears, tor if agitation for reform tends to centralization, the 
natural waywardness of mankind tends to revolt against the 
interference of distant and quasi-foreign authority in local af- 
fairs. Between these two tendencies there must 1)e a constant 
struggle, so that while we may expect a widening of the field 
of congres^iional action, Ave must expect a con esponding decline 
in regard tor the federal authority, and evasion or nullification 
of federal laws. 

*In all such cases what we may rationally expect is that congress will 
appoint a committee to investigate and to make a report on the nKiiter. 
Tlie power to do this Is not expressed In the constitution, but it exists 
nevertheless, and no pestiferous, states-rights nuHiticr has yet ventured 
to set bounds to it. 



4.4.4^^^. J^^^^^.^ 



APPENDIX. 
Our Federal Government. 



CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. 



President — Grover Cleveland of New York. 

Vice President — ( Vacan cy . ) 

Secretary of State — Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware. 

Assistaiit Secretaries of State — Geo, L. Rives of New York, Alvey 
A. Adee of Dist. of Columbia, and J. B.Moore of Delaware. 

Secretary of the Treasury — Charles S, Fairchild of New York. 

Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury — Isaac H. Maynard of New 
York and Hugh S. Thompson of South Carolina. 

Secretary of War — William C. Endicott of Massachusetts. 

Secretary of the Navy — William C. Whitney of New York. 

Postmaster General — Don M. Dickinson of Michigan. 

Assistant Postmasters General — A. E. Stevenson of Illinois, A. L. 
Knott of Maryland, and H. R. Harris of Georgia. 

Secretary of the Interior — William F. Vilas of Wisconsin. 

Assistant Secretaries of the Interior — Henry L. Muldrow of Mis- 
sissippi and D. L. Hawkins of Missouri. 

Attorney Oe/iem/— Augustus H. Garland of Arkansas. 

Assistant Attorneys General — William A. Maury of Virginia 
and Robert A. Howard of Arkansas. 

Solicitor General — George A. Jenks of Pennsylvania. 

Treasurer of the United States— James W. Hyatt of Connecticut. 

Director of the Mint — James P. Kimball of Pennsylvania. 

Superintendtnt Life-Saving Service — Sumner I. Kimball of Maine. 

Superi7itendent U. S. Coast Sutrey — F. M. Thorn of New York. 

Commissioner of Internal Revenue — J. P. ^liller of West Virginia. 

Commissioner General Land Office — (Vacancy.) 

Commissioner of Pensions — John C. Black of Illinois. 

Commissioner of Indian Affairs— J. D. C. Atkins of Tennessee. 

Commissioner of Patents — Benton J. Hall of Iowa. 

Commissioner of Education — N. H. R. Dawson of Alabama. 

Commissioner of Labor — Carroll D. Wright of Massachusetts. 

Commissioner of Railroads — Joseph E. Johnston of Virginia. 

Commissioner of Agriculture — Norman J. Colman of Missouri. 

Director of the Geological Survey — John W. Powell of lUiliois. 

Librarian of Congress — Ainsworth R. Spofford. 



APPENDIX. 



FIFTIETH CONGRESS. 



SENATE. 
Preiident pro tem.—^ohn J. Ing-alls. 



Term 
expires, 
Alaba7na. 

John T. Morgan, D 1889 

James L. Pugh, D ...1891 

Arkansas. 

James H. Berry, I) 1889 

James K. Jones, D 1891 

California. 

Leland StanfordjR 1891 

George Hearst, D 1893 

Colorado. 

Thomas H. Bowen, R 1889 

Henry M. Teller, R 1891 

Connecticut. 

Orville R. Piatt, R 1891 

Joseph R. Hawley, R 1893 

Delaware. 

Eli Salisbury, D 1889 

George Gray, D 1893 

Florida. 

Wilkinson Call, D 1891 

Samuel Pasco. D 1893 

Georgia. 

Alfred H. Colquitt, D 1889 

Joseph E. Brown, D 1891 

Jllinois. 

Shelby M. CuUom, R 1889 

Charles B. Far well, R 1891 

Indiana. 

Daniel W . Voorhees, D 1891 

David S. Turpie, D 1893 

Iowa. 

James F. Wilson, R 1889 

William B. Allison, R 1891 

ICansas. 

Preston B. Plumb, R 1889 

John J. Ingalls, R 1891 

Kentucky. "* 

James B. Beck, D 1889 

J. C. S. Blackburn, D 1891 

Louisiana. 

Randall L. Gi bson, D 1889 

James B. Eustis, D 1891 

Maine. 

William P. Frye, R 1889 

Eugene Hale, R 1893 



I Term. 

expires. 
I Maryland. 

Ephriam K . Wilson, D 189 1 

Arthur P.Gorman, D 1893 

I Massachusetts. 

George F. Hoar, R 1889 

Henry L. Dawes, R 1893 

Michigan. 

I Thomas W. Palmer, R 1889 

F. B. Stockbridge, R 1893 

Afinnesota. 

Dwight M. Sabin, R 1889 

Cushman K. Davis, R 1893 

Mississippi. 

Ed. C. Walthall, 1) 1889 

James Z. George, D 1893 

Aftssouri. 

George D. Vest. D 1891 

F. M. Cockrell, D 1893 

Nebraska. 

C. F. Mauderson, R 1889 

A.fe. Paddock, R 1893 

Nevada. 

John P. Jones, R 1891 

Wm. M. Stewart, R. . • 1893 

New Hampshire. 

William E. Chandler, R 1889 

Henry W. Blair, R 1891 

New yersey. 

J. R. McPherson, D 1889 

Ruf us Blodgett, D 1893 

New York. 

Wm. M. Evarts, R 1891 

Frank Hiscock, R. 1893 

North Carolina. 

Matt. W. Ransom, D 1889 

Zebulon B. Vance, D 1891 

Ohio. 

Henry B. Payne, D 1891 

John Sherman, R 1893 

Oregon. 

Joseph N.Dolph, R 1889 

John H. Mitchell, R. 1891 

Fenftsylvania. 

Jas. D. Cameron, R 1891 

Matthew S. Quay, R 1893 



APPENDIX, 



111 



Rhod,: Island. 

Jonathan Cbaoe, R. . - 1889 

Nelson W. Aldricli,R 1893 

South Carolina. 

Matthew C. Butler, D 1889 

Wa«le Hampton, D 1891 

Tennessee. 

Isham G. Harris, D 1889 

William B. Bate, D 1893 

Texas. 

Richard Coke. D IJ 

JohnH. Reagan. 1) 1893 

Republicans, 38; Democrats, 3 



Vermont. 

Justin S. Morrill, R.... 1891 

Geo . F. Edmunds, R 1893 

Virguiia. 

H. H. Riddleberger, Ind 1889 

John W. Daniel, D.. 189:i 

West Virginia. 

John E. Kenna, D ...1889 

Charles J. Faulkner. D 1893 

IVisccnsin. 

John C. Spooner, R 1891 

Phiietus Sawyer, R 1893 

Independents, 1; Total. 76. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



Speaker. —Sohu G. Carlisle. 



Alabama, 
James T. Jones,* D. 
Hilary A.Herbert,* D. 
William C. Gates,* D. 
Alex. C.Davison,* D. 
James E. Cobb, D. 
John H. Bankhead, D. 
William H . Forney,* D. 
Joseph Wheeler,* D. 

Arkansas. 
Poindexter Dunn,* D. 
C.R.Breckinridge,* D. 
Thomas C. McRea,* D. 
John H. Rogers,* D. 
Samuel W. Peel,* D. 

California, 
Thomas L. Thompson, D. 
Marion Biggs, D. 
Joseph McKenna,* R. 
William W. Morrow,* R. 
Charles N. Felton,* R. 
William V^andever, R. 

Colorado. 
George D. Symes,* R. 

Connecticut, 
Robert J. Vance. D. 
Carlos French, D . 
Charles A. Russell, R. 
Miles T. Granger, D. 

Delaware. 
John B. Pennington, D. 

Florida. 
R. H. M. Davidson,* D. 
Charles Dougherty,* D. 



3 



Gectgia 
Thomas M. Norwood,* D. 
Henry G. Turner,* D. 
Charles F. Oisp,* D. 
Thomas W. Grimes, D. 
.lobn D. Stewart, 1). 
James H. Blount,* 1). 
Judson C. Clements.* D. 
Henry H. Carleton, D. 
Allen D. Chandler,* D. 
George T. Barnes,* D. 

Illinois. 
Ransom W. Dunham,* R. 
Frank Lawjer,* I). 
William E. Mason, R. 
George Adams,* R. 
Albert J. Hopkins,* R. 
Robert R. Hitt,* R. 
Thos, J. Henderson,* R. 
Ralph Plumb,* R. 
Lewis E. Payson,* R. 
Philip Sidney Post, R. 
William H.Gest.R. 
George A. Anderson, D. 
William M. Spriuger,* I). 
Jonathan H. Rowell,* K. 
Joseph G. Cannon,* R. 
Silas Z. Landes,* D. 
Edward Lane, D. 
Jehu Baker, R. 
R. W. Townshend,* D. 
John R. Thomas,* R. 

hid I ana. 
Alvin P. Hovev, R. 
James H. O'Neall, D. 
Jonas G. Howard,* D. 



iv 



APPENDIX, 



4 William S. Holman,* D. 

5 Courtland C. Matson,* D. 

6 Thomas M. Browne,* R. 

7 William D. Bynum,* D. 

8 James l\ Johnston,* K. 

9 Joseph B. Cheadle, R. 
10 William D. Owen,* R. 
n George W. Steele,* R. 
13 James B. White, R. 

13 Benjamin F. Shively,!). 
Jo'n a. 

1 John H. Gear, R. 

2 Walter I. Hayes, D. 

3 David B. Henderson,* R. 

4 William E. Fuller,* R. 
6 Daniel Kerr, R. 

6 James B. Weaver,* D. 

7 Edwin H. Conger,* R. 

8 Albert R. Anderson, Ind, 

9 Joseph Lymm,* R. 

10 Adoniram J. Holmes,* K. 

11 Isaac S. Struble,* R. 

K nas 

1 Edmund N. Morrill,* R. 

2 Edward H. Funston,*K. 

3 Bishop W. Perkins,* U. 

4 Thomas Ryan,* R. 

5 John A. Ar.derson.*R. 

6 Erastus J. Turner, R. 

7 Samuel R. Peters,* R. 

Ketitwkv. 

1 William J. Stone,* D. 

2 Polk Laffoon,* D. 

3 W.Godtrey Hunter, R. 

4 Alex. B. Nfontgomery, D. 

5 Asher G.Caruth, D. 

6 John G. Carlisle,* D. 

7 VV. C. p. Breckinridge,* D. 

8 James B. McCreary,* D. 

9 George M . Thomas, R. 

10 William B. Taulbee,* D. 

11 Frank Finley, R. 

Louisiana, 

1 Theodore S . Wilkinson, D . 

2 Matthew D. Lagan, D. 

3 Edward J. Gav.*D. 

4 Newton C. Blanchard,* D. 

5 Cherubusco Newton, D. 

6 Edward W. Robertson, D. 

Maine. 

1 Thomas B. Reed,* R. 

2 Nelson Dingley, Jr.,* R. 
8 SethL. Milliken,*R. 

4 Charles A. Boutelle,* R, 
Maryland, 

1 Charles H. Gibson,* D. 

2 Frank T. Shaw,* D. 
8 H. Welles Rusk, D. 
4 Isidore Rayner, D. 

6 Barnes Compton,* D, 



Louis E. McComas,* R. 

Massachusetts. 
Robert T. Davis,* R. 
John D. Long,* R. 
Leopold M )r8e, D. 
Patrick A. Collins.* D. 
Edward D. Hayden,* H. 
Henry Cabot Lodge, R. 
William Cogswell, R. 
Charles H. Allen,* R. 
Edward W. Burnett, D. 
John E. Russell, D. 
William Whiting,* R. 
Francis W. Rockwell,* R. 

Michigan. 
John Logan Chipman, D. 
Edward P. Allen. R. 
James O'Donnell.* R. 
Julius C. Burrows,* R. 
Melbourne H. Ford, D. 
Mark S. Brewer, R. 
Justin R Whiting, D. 
Timothy E. Tarsney.* D. 
Byron M. Cutcheon,* R. 
Spencer O. Fisher* D. 
H. W. Seymour, R. 

AfinnesQta, 
Thomas Wilson, D. 
John Lind. R. 
John L. McDonald, D. 
Edmund Rice, D. 
Knute Nelson,* R. 
Afississippi. 
John M. Allen,* D. 
James B. Morgan,* D. 
Thomas C. Catchings,* D. 
Frederick G. Barry,* D. 
Chapman L. Anderson, 1). 
Thomas R. Stockdale, D. 
Charles E. Hooker, D. 

Missouri. 
William H. Hatch,* D. 
Charles H. Mansur, D. 
Alexander M. Dockery,* D. 
James N. Burnes,* D. 
William Warner,* R. 
John T. Heard,* D. 
JohnE. Hutton,*D. 
John J. O'Neill.* D. 
John M. Glover,* D. 
Martin L. Clardy,* D. 
Richard P. Bland,* D. 
William J. Stone,* D. 
William H. Wade,*R. 
James P. Walker, D. 

Nebraska, 
John A. McShane, D. 
James Laird,* R. 
George W, E. Dorsey,* R. 



APPENDIX. 



Nevada. 
William Woodburn,* H. 

New Hampshire. 
Luther F.McKinney, D. 
Jacob H. Galling-er,* H. 

New Jersey. 
George Hires,* R. 
James Buchanan.* R. 
John Kean, Jr. R. 
James N. Pidcock,'^ D. 
William W. Phelps.* R. 
Herman Lehlbach,* R. 
William McAdoo.* D. 

New York. 
Perry Belmont,* D. 
Felix Campbell,* D. 
Stephen V. White, R. 
Peter P. Mahoney,* D. 
Archibald M. Bliss,* D. 
Amos J. Cummings, D. 
Lloyds. Bryce,D. 
Timothy J. Campbell,* D. 
Samuel S. Cox, D. 
Frank B. Spinola, D. 
Truman A. Merriman,* D. 
W. Burke Cockran, D. 
Ashbel P. Fitch, R. 
William G. Stahlnecker,* D. 
Henry Bacon, D. 
John H. Ketcham,* R. 
Stephen T. Hopkins, R. 
Kdward W. Greenman, D. 
Charles Tracy, D. 
George West,* R. 
John H. Moffitt, R. 
Abraham X. Parker. R. 
James S. Sherman, R. 
David Wilber. R. 
James J. Belaen, R. 
Milton Delano, R. 
Newton W. Nutting, R. 
Thomas S. Flood, R. 
Ira Davenport,* R. 
Charles S. Baker,* R. 
John G. Sawyer,* R. 
John M . Farquhar,* R. 
John B. Weber *R. 
William G. Laidlaw, R. 

North Carolin I. 
Louis C. Latham, D. 
Furnif old M. Simmons, D. 
Cbas. W. McClammy. D. 
John Nichols, Ind. 
John M. Brower, R. 
Alfred Rowland, D. 
John S. Henderson,* D. 
V^m. H. H. Cowles,*D. 
Thomas D. Johnston,* D. 

Ohio, 
Benjamin Butterworth,* R. 



2 Charles E. Brown,* R. 

3 EliS. Williams, R. 

4 Samuel S. Yoder, D. 

5 George E. Seney,* D. 

6 MellvilleM. Boothman, R. 

7 James E. Campbell,* D. 

8 Robert P. Kenned\ , R. 

9 William C. Cooper,* R. 

10 Jacob Romeis,* R. 

11 Albert C. Thompson,* R. 
13 Jacob J. Pugsley. R. 

13 Joseph H. Outhwalte,* D. 
U Charles P. Wickham, R. 

15 Chas. H. Grosvenor,* R. 

16 Beriah Wilkin s,* D. 

17 Joseph D. Taylor, R. 

18 Wm. McKinlev, Jr.,* R. 

19 EzraB. Taylor,* R. 

20 George W. Crouse, R. 

21 Martin A. Foran,* D. 

Oregon. 
Binger Hermann,* R. 

Pennsylvania. 
Edwin S.Osborne,* R. 
( Hepresentative-at-Large.) 

1 Henry H. Bingham,* R. 

2 Charles O'Neill,* R. 

3 Samuel J. Randall,* D. 

4 William D. Kelley,* R. 

5 Alfred C. Harmer,*R. 

6 Smedley Darlington, R. 

7 Robert M. Yardley, R. 

8 Daniel Ermentrout,* D. 

9 John A.Hiestand,* R. 

10 Wm. H.Sowden,*D. 

11 Charles R. Buckalew, D. 

12 John Lynch, D. 

13 Charles N. Brumm,* R. 
U FranklnBound,* R. 

15 Frank C. Bunnell,* K. 

16 Henry C. McCormick, R. 

17 Edward Scull, R. 

18 Louis E. Atkinson,* R. 

19 Levi Maish, D. 

20 John Pat ton, K. 

21 Welty McCullough, R. 
23 JohnDalzell, R. 

23 Thomas M. Bayue,* R. 

24 Oscar L. Jackson,* R. 

25 James T. Maffeit, R. 

26 Norman Hall, D. 

27 Wm. L. Scott.* D. 

Rhode Island. 

1 Henry J. Spooner,* R. 

2 Warner O. Arnold, R. 

South Carolina. 

1 Samuel Dibble,* D. 

2 George D. Tillman,* D. 

3 James S. Cothran, D. 

4 Wm. H. Perry,* D. 

5 John J. Hemphill,* D- 



APPENDIX, 



6 George W. Daigan,* D. 


:; Wm/\V. Grout,* R. 


7 VVm. Elliott, B. 


Virginia. 


Tennessee. 


1 Thos. H. B. Browne, R. 


1 Roderick R. Butler, R. 


2 Georg-e E. Bowden, R. 


2 Leonidas C. HouK,* R. 


y George D. Wise,* D. 


3 JohnR. Neal,*D. 


4 Wm. E. Gaines, R. 


4 Benton McMillln,* D. 


5 John R. Brown, R. 


5 James D. Richardson,* D. 


6 Samuel T. Hopkins, L, 


6 Joseph E. Washing-ton, D. 


7 Charles T. O'Ferrail,* D 


7 Washing-ton C. Whitthorne.D. 


8 Wm. H. F. Lee, D- 


H Benj. A. Enloe, D. 


9 Henrv Bowen, R. 


\) Peter T. Glass,* D. 


10 Jacob Yost. R 


lu James Phelan, 1>. 


West Virginia. 


Texas. 


1 Nathan Golf, Jr.* R. 


1 Chas. Stewart.* D. 


M Wm. L. Wilson,* D. 


2 Wm.H. Martin, D. 


3 Charles P. Snyder.* D. 


;} r. Buckley Kilgore. T). 


4 Charles E. Hogg. D. 


4 David B. Culberson,* D. 


IVisronsin. 


5 Silas Hare, D. 


1 Lucien B. Caswell,* R. 


f) Joseph Abbc»tt, T). 


:i Richard (iuenther,* K. 


7 Wra. H. Grain,* I>. 


•;{ Robt. M. La Follette,* H 


8 Lytton W. Moore, D. 


4 Henry Smith. L. 


S) Kog-erQ. Mills.* D. 


n Thomas \i Hudd.* 1). 


K) Jos. D. Sayers,*D. 


li Chnrles B. Claik, R. 


11 Samuel W. T. Lanhara,*D. 


7 Ormsby B. Thonuis,=^ H. 


Vermont. 


8 Nils P. Haugen, R. 


1 John W. Stewart,* R. 


♦.) Isaac Stephenson,^ K. 



Democrats (marked D.), 168; Republicans (marked R.), !.>;; Lal)()r 
(marked L.)2; In<lependent, (marked Indj-J; Total membership, 3;ir>. 
Members of the 41)th congress i-e-elected to the 501 h, (marked *), 19;i. 

DELEGATES FItOM TKRRITORI ES. 



Arizona. 
Marcus A. Smith, D. 

Dakota. 
Oscars. Gitford,*R. 

/d'aho. 
Frederick T. Dubois, K. 

AI on tan a. 
Joseph K. Toole,* D. 



New Mexico. 
Antonio Joseph,* 1). 

Utah. 
JohnT. Caine,* Mormon. 

Washington. 
Charles S. Voorhees,* D. 

Wyoming. 
Joseph M. Carey,* R. 



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THE GLADSTONE SPEAKER. 

EDITED BY W. I. CHASE. 

Compiled from the speeches of eminent men of our time, 
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The 'IVorld we l<ive In. 

Practical Hints. 

Gladstone's Speech at Leeds, 1881. 

Winter and Famine. 

The Irish Patriots. 

Sic Seniner Liberatoribu*. 

SkobelefV as Slavophil. 

The Banner of the Jew. 

The Egyptian War. 

Exit Arabi. 

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Parnell's Reply to Forster. 

The Lieutenant's Petition. 

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Importunity of Office Seekers. 

Quality of Garfield's Greatness. 

Eagle or Hen. 

The Policy of 1846. 

Wattersoii at Toledo. 

Poem on Mrs. Stowc. 

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To Virgil. 

North and South. 

American Novelists. 

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This Degenerate Age. 

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Summer Drought. 

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Darwin's Theory Backwards. 

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She Would Have Chewing Gum. 

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Nigger Mighty Happy. 

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Sunday Fishin'. 

Our Railroads. 

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The Man in the Moon. 

Malonie and Murphy. 

A Warning from the Sawdust Ring. 

The Little Banana Peel. 

The Christmas Reformer. 

Millionaire and Barefoot Boy. 

A Negro Boy's Complaint. 

The Wedding of Shon Maclean. 

Tobias — So to Speak. 

Kentucky Philosophy, 

A Western Maid's Dream. 

Out on a Fly. 

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